De una parte, las del primer ministro Dominique de Villepin:
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin says the rioting was caused by racial bias, lack of business opportunity and insufficient education for immigrant children. He vows tax breaks for business, better education for immigrant children and tougher enforcement of anti-bias laws. For this conclusion, the French media, which is more left wing than the American press, praised him.
Es decir, causas del problema: racismo, falta de oportunidades e insuficiente educación. Remedios: Menos impuestos (?), mejor educación y leyes contra la discriminación racial. La prensa francesa elogia la propuesta. De la otra parte, la propuesta de Le Pen:
I asked Le Pen what he would do should he become president in next year’s election. He told me he would immediately stop all immigration and “change the law of nationality” so that being born in France does not automatically make one a French citizen. He also would make it more difficult for an immigrant to bring all of his or her relatives to France, as is now allowed.
Traduzco: Detener la inmigración, cambiar las reglas para conceder nacionalidad, de forma que nacer en Francia no sea suficiente para adquirir nacionalidad francesa automáticamente. Añade:
Le Pen fears that not only France, “but all of Europe will be submerged by all these people if nothing is done. There are no jobs for them and most won’t work, preferring a government check. Many live by dealing in drugs, or stealing. They have created their own ghettos. We have places where there are no schools, because they have set them afire and the police and firemen are attacked when they go there. Civilization is slowly evaporating from this country.”
Aquí está la raíz del problema. Europa necesitó trabajadores en los años 50 y 60 pero no actualmente. Sin embargo, el flujo de inmigrantes se ha intensificado, por lo que no hay trabajo para ellos. Además, el coste social de unos inmigrantes inactivos es muy elevado.
Le Pen, who has been called a fascist, racist, xenophobe and other things that cannot be printed here, says, “We are currently subsidizing everybody, including the illegals. It is costing us the equivalent of $500 billion annually.”
La prensa no le deja hablar:
Le Pen denies he is any of the things his detractors call him, but he protests what he calls the censorship of his views by the French media. He tells me the French media spend more time talking about him than allowing him to speak for himself. During the rioting last fall, he says 50 foreign journalists interviewed him, but no French reporters. As a result, he maintains, most French people know little of his views and he is dismissed as a fringe character.
Puedes leer el artículo completo: Lessons learned (and not learned) from the French riots.
