A wanted notice for Salah Abdeslam, left, and Mohamed Abrini | Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images Belgian-born terror suspects may be deported under new rules The bill would reverse a law that protects foreign nationals who were born in Belgium from deportation.

A bill adopted by Belgium's federal parliament Thursday evening would see foreign nationals who are suspected of terrorism and organized crime deported, even if they were born in Belgium, Le Soir reported.

The bill would reverse an earlier law that protected foreigners in Belgium of expulsion if they were either born in Belgium, or if they arrived in the country before the age of 12. It would allow the government to expel any foreign national deemed a "threat to public order or national security."

Theo Francken, Belgium's asylum and migration minister, submitted the bill following the Paris attacks in November 2015 in which Salah Abdeslam, a Belgium-born French citizen, is the chief suspect. The law intends to make the extradition of people like Abdeslam easier.

Opposition lawmakers criticized the bill, saying it would not keep Belgians safe. "If this person is really dangerous, it will be safer for her to be condemned and imprisoned than to send her 15 km across the border to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Telegram," said Benedict Hellings of the Ecolo Party, alluding to the expulsion of a radical imam who had a large following on social media, despite being expelled by Belgium last year.