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France’s migration crisis will outlast Emmanuel Macron
The Spectator ^ | Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | Gavin Mortimer

Posted on 06/01/2026 5:51:12 PM PDT by 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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1 posted on 06/01/2026 5:51:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hah! We beat the French again!


2 posted on 06/01/2026 6:21:38 PM PDT by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a BooYou must be able to hit the bullseyemer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You don’t say.


3 posted on 06/01/2026 7:53:07 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: MinorityRepublican
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!

4 posted on 06/01/2026 7:55:19 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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