83% of French Back Deporting Criminal and Long-Term Unemployed Foreigners as Remigration Debate Goes Mainstream

A new CSA poll shows that 83 percent of French people—including as many as 90 percent of young French adults—support deporting certain categories of foreigners already living in France, including delinquents, criminals and the long-term unemployed.

This polling data isn’t representative of some kind of passing mood. It is a national verdict on decades of mass immigration, failed integration and political cowardice from an establishment that has treated France as a dumping ground for the rest of the world, particularly the third-world.

The survey, conducted for Europe 1, CNews and the JDD, asked whether specific categories of foreigners already present in France should be returned to their countries of origin. More than eight in ten respondents said yes.

That popular verdict comes despite years of globalist, anti-Western propaganda. The French people are no longer asking for another symbolic immigration reform from their anti-national political class. No, they are demanding mass deportations, enforcement, and the restoration of national control.

Support was nearly identical among men and women. According to the poll, 82 percent of men and 84 percent of women backed deporting foreign delinquents, criminals, and the long-term unemployed.

The numbers also spanned various social categories. Support reached 78 percent among higher-income professionals, 84 percent among lower socioeconomic groups and 87 percent among inactive respondents.

The strongest figure, which may come as a surprise to many, came from the youngest cohort. Among 18–24-year-olds, 90 percent supported what the survey called “negative immigration” for targeted categories of foreigners.

That number destroys one of the left’s most comfortable myths. The young, increasingly, are far from sold on open borders; most have grown up inside the catastrophic consequences of mass immigration and are now demanding a harder line than their elders.

The political spread was just as revealing. On the left, 69 percent of voters backed the removal of foreign delinquents, criminals. and the long-term unemployed.
Even among voters of the far-left, communist-adjacent Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise, support stood at 66 percent. Socialist voters backed the measure at 75 percent, while Green voters supported it at 68 percent.

On the right, the consensus was overwhelming. Among center-right Les Républicains voters, 96 percent supported the measure, while national-conservative National Rally voters followed at 93 percent.

What can be extrapolated from these kinds of numbers is quite clear. Remigration is no longer some kind of slogan used among radicals; it is the democratic demand of a country that wants its borders, streets and welfare system back.

For years, a globalist, out of touch, nearly permanent, ruling class told the French people that any serious discussion of mass deportations, remigration, national preference or immigration restriction was immoral. Now the voters are overwhelmingly saying that the immoral policy is leaving foreign criminals and permanent welfare dependents in the country while French citizens pay the price.

The term “negative immigration” has gained force because the public no longer believes that slowing arrivals is enough. Many French people now want a net reduction in the foreign population where crime, delinquency, non-integration or long-term dependency are involved.

That gets to the core of remigration as an idea. It means that residency in France is not an unconditional entitlement, and that foreign nationals who abuse the country’s hospitality should be removed.

France has spent decades expanding the language of welcome while shrinking the rights of its own people. Working-class communities, small towns, schools, hospitals and housing markets have absorbed the costs while the managerial globalist class congratulated itself on its compassion.

That arrangement—and national betrayal—is now ending. Ordinary French citizens increasingly understand that mass immigration is not just an economic issue, but a question of national survival, cultural continuity, and democratic consent.

The anger already felt by most French people—and the vast majority of people living in Western countries—has been intensified by the state’s repeated failure to enforce deportation orders already on the books. In case after case, foreigners with criminal records or expulsion orders remain in France because of legal obstruction, bureaucratic weakness or non-cooperation from countries of origin.

Every preventable crime committed by someone who should have been removed becomes another indictment of the rotten, anti-national system. These are the predictable result of a state that has chosen procedure over protection.

The polling also comes as the globalist French state continues to issue residence permits at record levels. According to Interior Ministry figures cited in reporting, France granted 384,000 first residence permits in 2025, an 11.2 percent increase from the previous year.

Those numbers, for critics, confirm that France is being rapidly demographically transformed without the clear consent of the French people. Elections come and go, promises are made and broken, but the demographic change machinery keeps chugging along.

Éric Zemmour has long argued that France must go beyond cosmetic restrictions. Appearing on Europe 1, he said he supports “zero immigration” but also “negative immigration.”

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“I think we need to start remigration,” Zemmour said. His position, once treated as unspeakable by establishment commentators, now looks closer to the national mood than the open-border dogmas of Paris and Brussels.

Zemmour has also warned that legal immigration fuels the broader immigration system, especially through family reunification. That argument now sits at the heart of the nationalist critique: even legal channels can become engines of demographic replacement when the state refuses to defend the continuity of the nation.

The CSA poll shows that the French public is far ahead of its rulers. Voters are no longer satisfied with speeches about integration while crime, dependency, separatism, cultural fragmentation, and social disintegration continue unabated.

They want foreign criminals removed. They want welfare dependency ended. They want borders enforced. And above all, they want the principle restored that France exists first for the French.

These numbers, for the globalist class, represent a stark warning that the old regime of silence is collapsing. For the national right, they are proof that remigration has become nothing more than common sense.

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