Note. While researching an article I am writing on how Hungary is dealing with illegal immigration, I happened upon this article about France. It's sad that the situation had to get to this point. Nolan


The mayors of seven large French cities have appealed to the national government to save them from the 'social emergency' of huge numbers of migrants.

Local chiefs from Nantes, Lille, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulouse andStrasbourg wrote an open letter to Parisian officials to beg for relief from the'extreme tension' caused by the arrival of people seeking a new home.

The mayors - including this year's presidential hopeful Alain Juppé (fromBordeaux) - explained that there had been a 'massive rise in the demand forasylum', with 'several thousand' migrants arriving every month.

Writing to Le Monde, they added: 'A social emergency. An urgent solidarity. [Our cities] are, on this subject as on others, on the front line.

'We can not, we must not, resign ourselves to the human, social and health drama of uprooting migrants. Every month, several thousand people arrive inour cities.

'Integrating those recognized as refugees and helping those who have lost their right of asylum who still remain in our territory is a major issue.'

The letter further explained that the crisis - of 'a proportion never before known' - was leading to a 'saturation' of core services supplied to migrants such as housing and welfare despite a 'steady increase' in the number of places made available.

Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nt-crisis.html

Submitted by Nolan Rappaport