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This is a complete reversal by Macron from his bold statement of just a year ago.France must reduce immigration, beginning with legal entrants, President Emmanuel Macron said in a wide-ranging interview with weekly political magazine Le Point. Macron’s remark comes after he last year said that migration “is part of France’s DNA” and oversaw a record increase in immigrants in 2022.
During the Le Point interview, the French president indicated that his government will submit a new immigration bill to the French Parliament in the autumn, the adoption of which has been postponed several times over the past year.
“Are we flooded with immigration? No. You cannot say that. But the current situation is not sustainable, and we need to reduce immigration significantly, starting with illegal immigration. We have a duty to deliver,” the French president said in the interview.
What he is saying, in veiled fashion, is this: those Muslim economic migrants enter Europe through Greece, Spain, and Italy, and make their way to France because of the famously generous French welfare state. Those economic migrants know that in France they will receive free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, unemployment benefits (even without a history of work in France), and more. So France needs to protect its borders with other European countries, especially Italy and Spain, from which migrants will try to enter the Hexagon, more than it needs to protect its coastline.“To do this, we need to better protect our external European borders, because let’s not forget that France is not a country of entry for foreigners arriving in Europe, but rather a country of secondary immigration for foreigners who have entered the European Union from another country,” he added.
And if we add to that number of residence permits, a likely equal number of illegal migrants, France may be taking in at least two-thirds of a million migrants each year, a number that, as Macron recognizes, is unsustainable for a country with a population of only 70 million. And how long can the welfare state continue to offer such generous.benefits to the indigenous French, when so much of the state’s funds are supporting the welfare grifters from North Africa who continue to pile in?As Remix News reported earlier in the year, Macron has overseen a record increase in immigration during his tenure.
“A record year for the flood of immigrants into France: 320,330 residence permits were issued in 2022, the equivalent of the population of the city of Nantes. And that’s without taking illegal immigration into account. It is urgent to regain control of our borders!” Marine Le Pen tweeted earlier in 2023.
Three-quarters — 74% — of the French believe there are too many migrants in France; this number keeps rising, year after year. Macron, hoping the public will overlook his last year’s remark, is no longer going to claim that immigration, that is, Muslim migrants, benefits the country. The French know better. And now, it appears, so does he.On Jan. 26 of this year, the center-right daily Le Figaro commented on the figures published by the interior ministry with the title “Increasingly strong migratory pressure puts France against the wall.” It also ran its daily editorial on the government’s “guilty negligence” concerning immigration.
Macron may be relying on the public’s short memory when it comes to messaging on immigration, as his administration is well aware that mass immigration is rejected by the vast majority of the French populace.