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| Le Pen sez round 'em up and send 'em home |
| 2002-04-26 |
| French 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. "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." Everybody else is posting on Le Pen, so I guess I might as well throw one or two in. The Euroleft will rip statements like this, but Le Pen is That said, the Euros are tying themselves in knots expressing their a.)dismay and b.)contempt for Le Pen. My guess is that the left will briefly unite and that Chirac will win the election. The benefit Le Pen will bring is the tug at the left toward the other direction. To avoid having him or someone like him win next time, or the time after that, the 2nd International gang will be tugged back toward the center and away from Brussels. Maybe they won't end up rounding the illegals up, but they might clamp down on more of them coming in and attend more toward having what they've already got assimilate. That would be a good thing for La Belle France. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |