When Jaurès and the CGT were more anti-immigration than the right. As soon as it comes to regulating migratory flows, the left replays the same comedy, mixing overplayed indignation, abusive appropriation of morality and multiplication of signs of belonging to a cultural elite.
The endless and byzantine debates around the immigration law, adopted in December by the National Assembly, offered the disillusioned citizen a new representation of this spectacle. “We are touching on a France which risks seeing the ideas of Vichy return, whitewashed ” (Jean-Luc Gleyze, PS president of the Gironde departmental council, to AFP)