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In 1973, shortly before his death, the French President Georges Pompidou admitted
to have opened the floodgates of immigration, at a request of a number of big
businessmen, such as Francis Bouygues, who was eager to take advantage of docile
and cheap labor devoid of class consciousness and of any tradition of social struggle.
This move was meant to exert downward pressure on the wages of French workers,
reduce their protesting zeal, and in addition, break up the unity of the labor
movement. Big bosses, he said, "always want more.”

Forty years later nothing has changed. At a time when no political party would dare to
ask for further acceleration of the pace of immigration, only big employers seem to be
in favor of it — simply because it is in their interest. The only difference is that the
affected economic sectors are now more numerous, going beyond the industrial
sector and the hotel and catering service sector — now to include once “protected”
professions, such as engineers and computer scientists.

France, as we know, starting with the 19th century, massively reached out to foreign
immigrants. The immigrating population was already 800,000 in 1876, only to reach
1.2 million in 1911. French industry was the prime center of attraction for Italian and
Belgian immigrants, followed by Polish, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants. "Such
immigration, unskilled and non-unionized, allowed employers to evade increasing
requirements pertaining to the labor law” (François-Laurent Balssa, « Un choix
salarial pour les grandes entreprises » Le Spectacle du monde, Octobre, 2010).
In 1924, at the initiative of the Committee for Coalmining and big farmers from the
Northeast of France, a “general agency for immigration” (Société générale
d’immigration) was founded. It opened up employment bureaus in Europe, which
operated as suction pumps. In 1931 there were 2.7 million foreigners in France, that
is, 6.6 % of the total population. At that time France displayed the highest level of
immigration in the world (515 persons on 100,000 inhabitants). "This was a handy
way for a large number of big employers to exert downward pressure on wages. …
From then on capitalism entered the competition of the workforce by reaching out to
the reserve armies of wage earners.”

Continues on at link with post-war Muslim migration.