France’s migration crisis will outlast Emmanuel Macron

The Spectator ^ | Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | Gavin Mortimer

[MinorityRepublican]

France has maxed out on migrants. It’s a message that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has been pushing for years, but it’s one now endorsed by the government’s Justice Minister. In an interview with a newspaper at the weekend, Gérald Darmanin declared that the Republic has “reached the limits of our capacities for integration and assimilation.”

Darmanin believes that a three-year suspension of legal immigration is the answer, and in particular he wants a crackdown on the policy of family reunification. Introduced in 1976, the policy allowed migrants – mainly from North Africa – who came to France to work to also bring their family. “We must put an end to immigration as it exists today,” said Darmanin.

A report last week estimated that there are more than a million illegal immigrants in France, many of whom have arrived from central Africa and war-torn countries of the Middle East. But it is legal immigration that has most unsettled the French this century.

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[dljordan]

Hah! We beat the French again!

[webheart]

You don’t say.

[Billthedrill]

the Republic has “reached the limits of our capacities for integration and assimilation.”

Here's a little secret, mon ami - they don't assimilate with you, you assimilate with them. Or else. Quelle horreur!