Posted on 03/24/2022 6:14:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour said on Wednesday that he could seize the homes of African leaders and block remittances to their countries if they failed to take back immigrants, as he seeks to reboot his flagging campaign.
Zemmour, 63, a former political commentator, has made immigration and security the centre of his campaign and said this week that, if elected, he would create a Ministry of “Re-Immigration” that would deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants over his five-year term.
That campaign promise drew a rebuke from the National Rassemblement’s Marine Le Pen, who is also far-right. She called the proposal “anti-republican” in a Tuesday interview with BFM TV, though she declined, when pressed, to say if it was racist.
President Emmanuel Macron, a centrist whose policymaking has drifted to the right, and Le Pen are front-runners in the first round of the election, polls show, in a re-run of the 2017 election. Macron is favoured to win the final round.
As president, Zemmour would go to Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to negotiate accords for the expulsions, he has said. About 30% of French immigrants were born in one of those three countries, according to the French Institute of Demographic Studies.
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Good idea.
Such a good idea that it makes him “far right”. The stark reality is that you can live in poverty for a lot less in Africa than you can in France.
Would/did work here, too.
What the British should have done in 1763! My country of birth (and unfortunately, residence still) might not be the Schitt hole it has become!
Imagine, a world where both Pierre Trudeau and Justin Trudeau were residents of France, NEVER PRC (Politically Repressive Canada)!
Ah, it is to dream!
It would be nice if Zenmmour could arrange that, but the French or EU courts are going to rule that sending the immigrants back to the cesspits from which they came will endanger their lives and therefore violate their human rights. This is probably DOA.
Of course keeping them in France endangers French citizens and drains French taxpayers, but no one cares about them...
Good for him..!
Maybe the phrase “far right” should be replaced with “totally right” in such circumstances.
There goes some votes.
What does she propose to do with them?
These aren't quality people if their own countries won't take them back.
Sounds good to me. He’s by a mile the best candidate running in France.
When you are very wealthy, you are forced to deal with the government in power, so if that government falls (replaced or lost the election) what happens to their wealthy supporters (not necessarily voluntary supporters)? Do we now go from lawfare straight to seizefare? Think of the advantages, not courts and much faster results!
Were they “immigrants” or border crashers?
I think you are on to something...totally right!
World wide Jubilee of sorts.
An enormously sensible suggestion. Kudos.
Or America's major blue cities.
Last one to steal everyone else’s assets is the big winner
In theory I support this but I don’t know if just freezing everyone’s assets that we don’t like is a good idea in the long run
You maybe correct. I can see the ultra rich starting their own country with all the advantages of controlling every function such as banking.
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