Paris, France (CNN) -- Rallies are planned in cities across France Saturday criticizing President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent anti-crime proposals, which protest organizers say are "strategies of stigma and discrimination".
After anti-police attacks, the country's parliament is considering laws to take away French citizenship from naturalized immigrants guilty of crimes like attacks on police, polygamy or female circumcision.
But some believe Sarkozy's approach of blaming immigrants for security problems flies in the face of France's democratic fundamentals -- liberty, equality and fraternity.
"He is not fighting crime... He is deliberately putting into question the basic principles of republican equality, and what is already an extremely serious social and economic crisis now threatens the cohesion of all society," a group of 50 organizations supporting the protests said in a statement posted on the Education Without Borders Network's website Saturday.
Other organizations involved in the protests include immigrant, union and human rights groups.
When he announced the proposals in July, Sarkozy said French citizenship was a privilege.
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