Migrants queue with their papers for temporary shelter in Paris
Eliana Silver –Daily Mail Jan 29, 2026
France’s justice minister has proposed banning legal migration for two to three years.
Gerald Darmanin made the proposal as the number of immigrants in France has reached a new high, and a new opinion poll has revealed that 80% of voters believe France should toughen immigration policies.
The conservative minister, who is preparing to run for president in 2027, told news channel LCI that immigration would be halted for employment and family reunification.
‘There would be some exceptions, for instance, for doctors, researchers and some students,’ he added.
More than 8% of France’s adult population is made up of legal immigrants, with the number at about 4.5 million, according to figures by the interior ministry released this week.
Last year, France granted legal status to 384,230 new immigrants.
Darmanin served as interior minister from 2020 to 2024, during which he tightened immigration policies.
His immigration bill, which placed restrictions on migrants’ access to benefits, family reunification and the eligibility of children born in France for citizenship, was passed by parliament in 2024.
These measures were scrapped, however, and conservatives criticised President Macron for watering down the bill after he referred it to the Constitutional Council, which rules on whether new laws comply with France’s constitution.
According to the new opinion poll, conducted for right-wing news outlet CNews, 67% of French voters back Darmanin’s proposal.
The justice minister has said that after the two to three year halt, France should introduce a ‘quota system’ alongside a referendum ‘to ask the French people directly, how many [immigrants] you want’.
Darmanin’s plan comes as the EU will set its first target to bring down illegal immigration.
European home affairs and migration commissioner, Magnus Brunner, who is leading the overhaul told The Times the new migration strategy is ‘about bringing the numbers down and keeping them down.’
In 2015, illegal migration overwhelmed the bloc, with 1.32 million asylum seekers entering the EU.
By the end of 2023, over 8.5 million people had arrived to claim asylum. Although 50-60% were asked to leave, 80% of those refused did not do so.
This has led to growing anger from EU citizens on their governments’ failure to secure borders and deport illegal migrants, including criminals.
Many began to support the hard right due to stricter views on migration, and Brunner said he understands the electoral revolt.
He said: ‘I don’t think it’s about left or right or extreme parties. It’s about getting it done, getting things right and listening to the voters, listening to the people in Europe. What they want and what they don’t want.
European people do not want a system that is ‘abused by people,’ he added
More brainwashing. Portraying the existing invaders as “migrants”. The ones you already have are many times more than enough to put an end to your country. They out-birth you fourfold. They’re protected and nurtured at the expense of you and yours (and I don’t only mean money). They import their entire family in after them. The muslims have four wives, each with 4.2 kids. And you still think your “government” is “serving the people”.
there is no such thing as legal immigration
at the end of ww2 the russian people had been treated very badly by Stalin and the jews
so many like the cossacks joined hitler,
Stalin wanted to get his hands on these people, who begged to come to the UK
Harold Macmillan said there is no legal way foreign nationals can come
he loaded cossack families into packed trains, they were shocked to find the trains were going the wrong way, e g back to russia
this was one of churchils dirtiest betrayals
as the trains stopped in russia the cossack families who thought they were coming to the UK were machine gunned, some ended their lived in siberian concentration camps
shortly after a btach of poles were told they could stay here
it was then that harold macmillan made his famous speech
” there was no jewish holocaust”
there is no law passed to bring people into the uk
therefore all immigration is illegal
LOL…
For fifty years successive maggots at the coal face of the regime have waxed lyrical on the ‘inevitability’ of third whirled gimmegration.. and how you had better get used to it,,for GDP and thee ee con o me..
yet apparently they could just fucking ban it any time they felt like it, just like that…of course they could..
which delineates a couple of things, firstly ali baba and his forty million thieves are used to destabilize you cuntry’s.. and secondly that’s obviously govern mente policy..
because open borders, two tier justice, thought policing and unlimited welfare..looks more like occupation and eradication..
So you need to ask who your demockracy is actually representing..
don’t ya..
Excellent comment above from @ bhj.
“80% of voters believe France should toughen immigration policies.” The remaining 20% deserve to be chased through the streets and lobotomized with hatchets, hammers, and bricks.
And it’s too late to “toughen immigration policies” as there are already tens of millions of less-than-worthless orc scum polluting the cuntry. France’s own interior ministry states that, “More than 8% of France’s adult population is made up of legal immigrants, with the number at about 4.5 million.” And that’s just the ones who came in LEGALLY, so you can safely bet your teeth that there are millions upon millions of invaders there who couldn’t give a squatting shit about doing it legally.
Then there’s this bit: “By the end of 2023, over 8.5 million people had arrived to claim asylum. Although 50-60% were asked to leave, 80% of those refused did not do so.” Oh, the invaders “refused” to leave”, did they? Then you f*cking MAKE them leave, preferably in buckets or body bags.
Some years ago, as an EU national with clients in Switzerland, I looked into settling down in France and working from there as self-employed. Oh dear. As I quickly learned, just to rent a flat would have required securing a local (i.e., French citizen) “sponsor” who would then have to produce a myriad proofs and guarantees, including copies of his or her own tax returns for the previous five years.
So… to sum up: For educated, law-abiding, tax-paying EU citizens it’s insane, unhinged bureaucracy and jumping through hoops. For the hordes of barely documented desperados from the third world, it’s the red carpet and benefits galore.
I’m guessing, this is all by design. Now we wait for the denouement.