French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is "working more and more badly".
In a TV debate, Mr Sarkozy defended his plan to cut the number of new arrivals in half if he is re-elected next month.
Mr Sarkozy is trailing in the opinion polls behind the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande.
He is also competing for conservative voters with the far-right National Front party led by Marine le Pen.
The president said while immigration could be a boon for France, it needed to be controlled more tightly through tougher qualification rules for residency.
Mr Sarkozy, whose father was a Hungarian immigrant, also said he wanted to restrict some benefit payments to immigrants who had been in the country for 10 years.
The thing with Sarkozy is that when he says this, nobody believes a damned word of it. He was talking tough before the last election too and ended up being basically France's Obama in terms of actually delivering.
ReplyDeleteHe's behind the Socialist, who is probably a Marxist, leaving Sarkozy the true Socialist. As Bastiat espoused: Socialism leads invariably to Communism.
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