A bit of semantics first.
What does “combining firmness and humanity” mean?
Does this mean that the application of the law is inhumane and that philanthropy lies in the transgression of this same law?
In these simple words repeated by all governments for almost half a century, the complexity that accompanies any immigration policy shines through.
On the moral balance, humanity will always take precedence over firmness.
The migrants who since Friday have been camping in front of the Council of State have understood this well.
It is this institution which, in 1978, against the opinion of the government, considered as an intangible principle the fact, for foreigners, of leading a normal family life in France.
Since then, it is the Council of State which restricts as much as it can the power to control policies on immigration, while extending the rights of foreigners as much as possible.
At the Palais-Royal, it happens that Creon contemplates himself in Antigone.
The vast majority of the public wants firmness
No one, in truth, wants to question the principle...
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