May 20, 2006
DECENCY IN FRANCE
Campaigners defy Sarkozy plan to deport schoolchildren (Kim Willsher, The Guardian, May 20th, 2006)
French parents, councillors and human rights campaigners yesterday vowed to "hide" school and college pupils threatened with deportation because their parents are in the country illegally.Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister, has ordered local police to round up the youngsters and their families and ensure they are expelled after the school term finishes at the end of June. Even those who are French-born will not be spared.
The move has outraged opposition party representatives and welfare organisations, leading to calls for a countrywide campaign of civil disobedience.
Pierre Labeyrie, a Green party councillor in Toulouse, said he would have no hesitation in breaking the law. "We will give these people our support, our protection. If they ask us to shelter them, we will not close our doors, we take them in and feed them," he told Libération. "We will not denounce them to the police."
These leftists just don't get the beauty and nobility of the rule of law.
"We will give these people our support, our protection. If they ask us to shelter them, we will not close our doors, we take them in and feed them," he told Libération. "We will not denounce them to the police."
Now, if they were Jews, on the other hand, . . .
Posted by: Mike Morley at May 20, 2006 8:38 AMMy favorite caption for that picture was "Drop the Chalupa."
Posted by: Bruno at May 20, 2006 10:31 AMExtending to them all the courtesies they didn't show to the orphans of Lyon.
Posted by: erp at May 20, 2006 1:49 PMBut there's absolutely no reason Americans shouldn't end birthright citizenry and deport 12 million people.
Posted by: David Cohen at May 20, 2006 6:19 PM