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.
