France Wants to 'Choose' Its Immigrants (.....Sacre Bleu, how American)

NewsMax ^ | Friday, April 7, 2006

[IrishMike]

The curtain falls on a bevy of near-naked dancers in feathered headdresses, and Adir Rafael Pires glides into action. As a set-changer at the Lido, the racy cabaret on Paris' Champs-Elysees, Pires could not be farther from his desert birthplace: Cape Verde, a rocky, drought-stricken archipelago off West Africa's coast.

But the door that allowed Pires to make France his home may now be closing. France, like other European countries, is taking a harder look at the immigrants it lets in.

The drive toward "selective" immigration is inspired by electoral politics, by fears that some immigrants are not integrating and may even be vectors for terrorism and militant Islam, and by widely shared concerns that immigrants overtax welfare systems and compete for scarce jobs.

French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy championed a bill that would make it more difficult for poor immigrants with little education and few skills to start a new life in France - long one of Europe's most coveted destinations for immigrants.

[IrishMike]

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While it would target people like Pires and Vitalina, the immigration bill would favor a new breed of "highly qualified" workers who - with their higher degrees and sought-after skills - could just as easily move to New York or Toronto as Paris.

"'Highly qualified' is just a code word for rich," Pires said. He called a provision that would establish a renewable, three-year residence permit based on capacity and talent "a ploy to keep out the poor."

"Immigrant labor rebuilt this country after the war," he said. "It's not right to try to exclude us now."

[cripplecreek]

"Immigrant labor rebuilt this country after the war," he said. "It's not right to try to exclude us now."

That statement has a strangely familiar ring to it.

[bordergal]

Immigrant labor is now involved in getting free handouts and beating up "little white french people".

Go to No Parasan for some charming pictures of the "immigrant community" and their "interactions with the host culture".

This is one of the smarter moves the French have made lately.

[American Quilter]

France, like other European countries, is taking a harder look at the immigrants it lets in.

Too little, too late? France is--what--15% Muslim now?

[ishabibble]

>>>"Immigrant labor rebuilt this country after the war..."<<<

American soldiers and American dollars rebuilt France after the war. The only thing the French people contributed was that pungent smell and surly attitude that we all know and love today.

Is there anybody with a brain left in that country?

[Gritty]

Too little, too late.

The enemy is already firmly within the gates, collecting generous welfare payments!

[Red Badger]

...fears that some immigrants are not integrating and may even be vectors for terrorism and militant Islam, and by widely shared concerns that immigrants overtax welfare systems and compete for scarce jobs.

Get out the Mexican flags!...........

[softwarecreator]

The enemy is already firmly within the gates, collecting generous welfare payments

Ahhhh ... the effects of liberal policies on display.  

[softwarecreator]

Immigrant labor is now involved in getting free handouts and beating up "little white french people"

And if we don't do something they'll soon be beating up "little american people".

[xarmydog]

Not where I live!

[CheyennePress]

I think the French are really stepping up here.

Immigrants will be required to speak French and know the laws of the land and respect those values. Immigrants cannot bring over their 500 relatives if they are on the state dole.

Sorry, criticize the French here if you like, but I'm envious right now. What they are saying makes a heck of a lot more sense than what we're doing here.

At least on this issue.

[Ben Hecks]

France - Celebrating Diversity!

[Vicomte13]

It is only rational.

France is not a state of immigration.
She was not built like America was, by people flocking from all over the world for a new start.
Now, France has always been open to political refugees, and will remain so.
But French people cannot be expected to perpetually pay the bills for people fleeing their countries because their own governments will not establish rational economies.

There is enough skilled, poor labor arriving from Eastern European EU countries now who CANNOT be excluded because of the EU Treaties. There is no reason to allow Africans to continue to come into France. They are not needed. Those who are in France legally, or have been in France for a long time, should be regularized. But there is not a reason to import more problems from North Africa when Poles and Hungarians and Roumanians will fill out the labor force.

It is common sense.