The challenges of immigration

"Ten years wasted, or nearly so, since the Summer of Saint-Bernard," laments editorialist Gerard Dupuy in a special edition of the daily commemorating the strong-arm evacuation by police, ten years ago to the day, of a group of illegal immigrants who had been occupying the Saint-Bernard church in Paris. "France continues to raise the barricades against immigration, unsuccessfully. The fate of illegal immigrants thus remains suspended between an impossible deportation and an improbable regularisation. ... Yet France will remain a land of immigration as far into the future as we can project, and awareness of this has been growing for ten years. Faced with this, the attitude of the two main political camps is different, but symmetrical. Each side is trying to reconcile its centrist tropisms with the competing demands of its extremes." 

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