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A Socialist lawmaker named Paul Christophle walked into France’s National Assembly on October 6 and filed a bill to hand residence cards to every undocumented worker in the country — up to 400,000 people. The only requirement is six months of work on French soil — no language test, no cultural screening, no skills requirement. France’s parliament votes on it November 19. Christophle praised Spain’s Pedro Sánchez by name in the bill, calling his decision to legalize half a million migrants this year the model France should follow. France has up to a million people living inside its borders illegally, and Christophle said this bill is only the beginning — anyone who finds work after it passes should be legalized next. Macron has spent years promising to get immigration under control, but 96 percent of deportation orders in France go unenforced. This is the same playbook running across every Western country — import, wait, legalize, repeat. Japan looked at all of it and chose a completely different path. Tokyo has been careful about who it lets in, tightening residency rules and making it clear that immigrants who aren’t compatible with Japanese values and culture aren’t welcome. Instead of opening the door to foreign labor, Japan is building its replacement workforce out of steel and sensors. Japan Airlines is testing humanoid robots at Haneda Airport, Mitsubishi is putting them inside its factories, and 44 companies have pledged to build AI-powered humanoids targeting 10 million by 2040. Japan is 11 million workers short, and instead of importing people who may never integrate, they’re manufacturing the workforce themselves. France is voting on whether to reward 400,000 people for breaking the law. Japan is building robots so it never has to make that choice.