The French upper house Senate has begun debating a controversial immigration bill that the government says will bolster security for legal migrants. But opponents see it as new evidence of a move to the right by President Emmanuel Macron.
Left-wingers reject the draft law's bid to expel more people and toughen conditions for irregular migrants, while conservatives' hackles have been raised by provisions to regularise the situation of undocumented workers in sectors with labour shortages.
