Why does France have so much trouble with immigration? It's so bizarre to see from the United States.
-Uncontrolled (+ 300K per years) and unwanted immigration (96% of people whose right of asylum has not been accepted still remain in the country). France is a country with low economic growth, unemployment of 10% which creates social tensions. When you don't have a job, see a drug dealer driving a BMW, you do the same thing.
-Many come from former African colonies. Even those who were born in France, have a resentment and even a hatred of France (cf Algerian War). It is the racialism movement and the extreme left who push this population to feel themselves as eternel victim of a French state oppressor with a systemic racism. Any police intervention in a sensitive urban zone now escalates.
- Cultural insecurity. When you come to Rome you behave like the Romans.
Before there was an assimilation, the arrivals had to take the history, the culture, the values of France (out of the 4 million Italians who came to France alone 1.1 million stayed in France, the rest went elsewhere because they didn't want to blend in). Now our "pseudo elite" have switched to Anglo-Saxon "multiculturalism", you come to France but you behave as if you lived in your old country, but the Frenchman when he walks in the street he doesn't want to change continent. One of the most important tensions is on secularism (the separation of the state and the religion which must remain in the private framework), certain populations newly cannot arrive (don't want ?) to understand that which created tensions.