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France’s Justice Minister has called for a sweeping three-year halt to immigration, warning that the country has reached a breaking point after decades of mass migration.
Gérald Darmanin, a senior figure in President Emmanuel Macron’s government and a likely contender in next year’s presidential election, said France no longer has the capacity to properly integrate new arrivals.
“We have reached the limit of our capacities for integration and assimilation,” Darmanin said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche.
”So I now have a very strong conviction: we must put an end to immigration as it is today.”
”This is why I am proposing a three-year moratorium on legal immigration.
The comments mark one of the starkest admissions yet from a senior member of the French establishment over the scale of the migration crisis.
Darmanin also called for tougher deportation enforcement.
“Let’s put a stop to immigration, let’s expel those who must be expelled by conditioning visas on the acceptance of deportation orders, and let’s work on the assimilation of those who are on the national territory.”
France hits immigration BREAKING POINT
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin says “we’ve reached the limit” and pushes a plan to HALT legal immigration for 3 years.
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He also proposed ending automatic family reunification pathways and replacing them with strict annual visa quotas based on labor needs and country of origin.
Darmanin said many migrants lack “respect for the values” of France and blamed business interests for encouraging mass migration to suppress wages.
“Many difficult jobs are now reserved for foreign workers,” he remarked.
The comments come as immigration is expected to dominate France’s 2027 presidential race after decades of mass migration.
Opponents have dismissed Darmanin’s remarks as political posturing, noting that the current French establishment bears significant responsibility for the country’s immigration policies.
Darmanin is widely expected to seek the presidency under President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance banner.
A recent study by France’s National Institute of Demographic Studies found that by 2020, roughly one in three people in France were either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Polling also suggests, as in the United States, that migration policy can significantly reshape electoral politics.
An Ifop survey found that 40 percent of voters with two non-European parents intend to back far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with that figure rising to 51 percent among Muslim voters.
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