Mainstream French politicians across parties embraced zero-immigration rhetoric in the 1990s

Evidence

In France Jacques Chirac declared in 1990 that “Immigration must be totally stopped”; Interior Minister Charles Pasqua argued in 1993 for “zero immigration”; and Francois Mitterrand, Edith Cresson, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, and other mainstream politicians took anti-immigration stances. Immigration was a major issue in the parliamentary elections of 1993 and apparently contributed to the victory of the conservative parties. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 537

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the broader ‘Clash of Civilizations’ thesis about cultural insecurity driving Western policy reaction.