President Trump and Vice President Vance have wise advice for France and other European countries that are seeing rioting, anarchy and destruction in their streets.

“CLOSE THE BORDERS.”

Vice President Vance warned that, “in the name of diversity and compassion, Western liberals imported the third world into France.” He said, “They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn’t listen.”

There are lots of reasons for the rioting in France. French media called it “student protest over school conditions.” Other marchers came out against expensive living conditions and high fuel prices.

This dissatisfaction has been growing and occasionally bleeding out into the streets of France for decades. According to Reason Magazine, “France has built an enormous welfare state, much of it devoted to older citizens, while letting other state capacities and basic services fall apart.” Now students complain the government is shortchanging schools and “everyone sees that it is shortchanging its army and police.”

With protests as a smoke screen for vandalism, rioters and looters have joined in. The proliferation of Communist and Palestinian flags reveals the presence of far-left activists, Islamists, and African thugs.

This is why our president and vice president want European countries to curtail immigration. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, France’s foreign-born population has reached a historic high, with immigration increasingly originating from outside Europe.

As historian, Victor Davis Hanson explains on his podcast, in France, “the unemployment rate of new immigrants is almost 50%.” He says many immigrants’ attitude toward their host country “is not magnanimity, it’s contempt.”

Social commentator Rod Dreher says history teaches “that civilization is fragile. It can be taken from us — or, as in Europe today, it can be thrown away by fools who don’t realize how hard it was to build, and is to maintain,” and “who either hate it, …or just don’t care.”

A wise warning for the U.S.