A quote from Joel Shepherd on Instapundit.com, 2 November 2005

There’s just no damn jobs. White college grads can’t get jobs, what hope do immigrants from regions with bad schools have? [...] They can’t change schools to get a better education because the government says you have to go to the school where you live, and they live where they do because of the zoning laws... which I’m no expert about, but I do know that the government owns 30 percent of all housing in France, and poor immigrants basically live where they’re told. The government tries to give them everything and does it extremely badly, there’s no upward mobility, and it doesn’t breed a happy community.