Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes
There was an obvious link between 30 or 40 years of a policy of uncontrolled immigration and the social explosion in French cities.
Nicolas Sarkozy, French Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Quoted in “Battle over the Banlieues,” New York Times, April 2007
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He was referring to North African and other third world immigrants. France’s second largest ethnic group had become Muslims from North Africa. But they were only 10 percent of the population.
Magazine of the Council of Conservative Citizens
This is a very important historical quotation. When the anti-Asian racists first organized into a League, their racism was offensive to most national politicians and Eastern business and political leaders. However, this changed quite rapidly. It illustrates the constant vigilance that has to be maintained to condemn racism whenever it erupts last that was anathema becomes fashionable. The extremes become the norm. These minutes were taken when the League was still operating under the name of the “Japanese and Korean Exclusion League”.
New York was then the entry port of the vast majority of all immigrants to America.
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is a retired French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.