Bruno Retailleau Wants to End Birthright Citizenship in France

Trump may have lost his bid to end birthright citizenship in the U.S., but in Muslim-besieged France, an end to the practice of jus soli has become more popular. More on this move that is clearly intended to limit the number of Muslim citizens, and thus of Muslim votes, can be found here: “Retailleau vows to end birthright citizenship as he targets RN voters,” by Anne-Laure Dufeal, Brussels Signal, July 1, 2026:

Bruno Retailleau, the president of France’s centre-right party Les Républicains (LR), has outlined a tougher immigration platform as he seeks to win over right-wing voters, especially National Rally (RN).

The seemingly unstoppable rise of the National Rally, the anti-Muslim immigrant party that Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella head, has led other French politicians to move rightward in their own policies concerning Muslims. These include calling for tightening security at the borders, enforcing more strictly the rules to obtain citizenship, strengthening the borders, more vigorous enforcement of deportation orders, and making eligibility for welfare more difficult. Now Bruno Retailleau, president of Les Républicains, is pushing his center-right party to end birthright citizenship.

In an interview with the right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles, Retailleau argued that immigration has become a liability rather than an asset for France.

“Immigration is not an opportunity but a burden; it costs us far more than it brings us,” he said.

Retailleau argued that “Africa’s future lies not in Europe, but on the African continent”.

He rejected the idea that climate change could justify large-scale migration to Europe or “serve as a pretext for a change in civilisation”.

Europe is heating up far faster than any other part of the world, so it would make little sense to have a mass migration from Africa to Europe if “climate change” were really the cause. Besides, such a migration would swamp the advanced world of Europe, and the indigenous Europeans would be subject to the “Great Replacement” thesis of Renaud Camus. Europeans do not owe the world their collective suicide.

The LR leader also reiterated his support for holding a referendum on immigration. He did not, however, specify what question would be put to French voters.

Oh, can’t we guess? How about these questions? Should we halt altogether immigration from Muslim countries, given the proven impossibility of assimilating Muslims into our societies? Should we deport people who have a long record of living on every conceivable benefit that our generous welfare system provides, and who exhibit no interest in becoming gainfully employed? Should we deport all migrants who have been convicted of crimes? Should we distinguish, in our immigration policy, between those people who regard us as “the most vile of created beings” and those who bear us no such ill will, keeping out the former and possibly admitting some, but not too many, of the latter?

In his interview, Retailleau criticised the Spanish government led by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez over its decision to regularise undocumented migrants.

Pedro Sánchez is the head of the most corrupt government in the history of modern Spain. The wellbeing of himself, his wife, and their close associates is what moves him, not the wellbeing of the country he is right now running into the ground. Rather than try to round up and deport the huge number of undocumented — that is, illegal — migrants in Spain, he proposes to make them legal in order to save himself the trouble of enforcing the law. Already the undocumented have made 1.3 million applications for such “regularization” of their status. Would you be surprised if infusions of cash from certain Arab states and organizations, eager to have more Muslims becoming citizens of Spain, in a case of repeating the Reconquista, but in reverse, turned out to have motivated Sánchez?

Calls for referendums on immigration have become morecommon across Europe. In Switzerland, voters were recently asked to decide whether to cap the country’s population at 10 million through the so-called “Sustainability Initiative” which was ultimately rejected by 54 per cent of voters.

But Switzerland doesn’t have the Muslim immigrant problem that plagues other European states. It keeps its borders tightly controlled. It only allows in those would-be immigrants who are judged will not be a burden on Swiss taxpayers, and have a reasonable chance of assimilating into, and succeeding in, Swiss society.

He vowed to push for changes to EU rules so that humanitarian or territorial visas would only be valid in the member state that issued them….

He doesn’t want visa-shopping, where those who receive their visas from the state that is most lax in its policy can then move to other countries where the visa restrictions are much more taxing.

“Similarly, I will put an end to automatic benefits for foreigners arriving in France: they will have to wait five years of legal residence and employment to be eligible,” he said.

An excellent plan, one which should save the French state a great deal of money, and one certain to cut down on the number of immigrants coming to France. The National Rally first proposed it, but now Retailleau has picked it up, knowing how popular it has become.

Save for the Islamophilic communists of La France Insoumise, whom the antisemitic Jean-Luc Mélenchon leads, who want even more immigration, every French political party has now embraced some form of immigration tightening. The National Rally, which just a few years ago respectable people shunned as “extreme right-wing” and beyond the pale, is now the most popular party in France, and popular precisely because of its anti-Muslim immigrant policies. Now Bruno Retailleau of the center-right Les Républicains has made the NR’s proposals his very own. In France, common sense is once again in fashion. Things are looking up.