Posted on 04/26/2002 3:09:22 AM PDT by kattracks
PARIS - Right-wing presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has turned up his anti-immigration rhetoric, saying on national television that he believes France should set up transit camps where illegal aliens can be housed pending deportation.
Speaking Thursday on LCI television, Le Pen said illegal immigrants should be placed in "relatively comfortable transit camps" and then expelled.
"What really worries me is that we are being progressively submerged by immense masses from the Third World, and this massive immigration is creating very desocializing conditions," he said on RMC-Info radio.
He also said that France's unemployment rate, at about 9 percent, proves that there are not enough jobs to justify immigration.
"We don't have enough work for even our own citizens," he said.
According to Labor Ministry statistics released in February, some 2.2 million French men and women were unemployed and unable to find work.
"The constitution never said that foreigners should have the same rights as the French," he said. "Foreigners who don't do well here have the right to leave."
LePen may be a kook, but in this matter he gets the point. France is careening towards becoming a chapter of Islamistan Worldwide in a few short decades. (We, on the other hand, appear to be headed towards becoming another province of Mexico.)
MADNESS and Euro wimpyness.
That was EXACTLY my first thought upon seeing the article. The level of bias is incredible: they could have just as easily said "Send illegals to camps pending deportation," and it would have been much closer to the truth. And why play up the "camps" aspect rather than the fact they'd be deported?
Why start out with "LePen may be a kook?"...that's what the media wants us to do, assume their attitude might be valid.
I would prefer "LePen is obviously not a kook since in this matter (illegals who don't go home on their own) he gets the point!
My guess is that he and his supporters consider Islamic immigration/colonization the prime problem and not the Jews of France. That they long for days of 20 years ago when their "problem" was Jews.
Allegedly 5 million Moslems in France and only half million Jews.
If this is the size of it, the situation is ambiguous. Gallows humor in bad taste but no malice? Or a real antipathy? In a way, he seems like kind of a French Pat Buchanan. He won't win, but he will create an immense splash in French politics.
Makes too much sense. Why not try the USA solution: Have no idea where they are until a INS agent trips over them. Then tell them they are expelled but release them on their own recognizance while the legal process takes 5 years to confirm the ruling. At which point they can no longer be found.
Of course there is also the UN solution - take them home and give them your house.
I read an interview posted on another thread where he shows admiration for the ideal of Israel. In other words, he supports Zionism. He also pointed out their right to self-defense. He didn't sound at all anti-Semitic.
All of this is to mask the virulent anti-Semitism of the French left, IMHO.
I'm becoming less concerned because it's been a few days now since the election and all I've seen was that he made a comment about the Holocaust being a detail of WWII that made him seem less than sympathetic to the Jews. The liberals have been backing the Muslims against the Jews, they didn't complain about the Muslims attacking the synagogues in France recently, they don't complain about Palestinians suicide bombing innocent Jews, so the liberals really have nothing to say.
It is concerning, and I don't know the answer for sure. What is don't understand is why nobody is asking what Chirac and his buddies think about the Jews. They are in power now, and look what they are saying about Israel. We know that the French establishment is anti-semetic.
As for LePen, perhaps he is insensitive, but I think he is just a French Nationalist, and therefore is not really sensitive to anyone outside of traditional France.
And take a grain or two of salt while exploring.
Do we have any French Freepers?
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