Nature mag weighs in on Le Pen

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Apr 29 17:42:24 PDT 2002



> Aren't there about 100 members of Congress who are to the right of Le Pen?

Le Pen says that 80% of the immigrants in France are illegal where reputable statisticians put the number at 5-10%. He says he wants to round up that 80% and deport them immediately and then pass a law that any child born in the country to a non-French person would not get French citizenship. And of course he would also ban all legal immigration, which is currently running at a flood tide of 0.2% annually. And cease all naturalization.

Loathesome as they may be in many ways, I think this still represents a view that's off the chart for right-wingers in Congress. No?

Michael



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