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Wed 12 Dec 2006Brennan warns of French-style race riotsIreland must properly integrate new immigrants or else face the danger of French-style riots in the years ahead, Minister for Social Affairs Seamus Brennan has warned.One-tenth of the State's population was now immigrant. "That is in just over two years, particularly from eastern Europe. We have an opportunity to get immigration right because we can see what happened in other countries. We have to learn from their mistakes.