Facts aren't only numbers, (although they are important, and show the policy is "statistics" driven, i.e. in the summer of 2006, the government claimed it would examine all parents of children asking for papers - only Sarkozy announced beforehand the number of people who would get papers, and strangely the number of people getting papers matched - i.e., people in similar conditions got papers depending on when the decision about them was taken) but also, as we pointed out, various absurd and tragic situations people are put in by this policy. A policy you "assume" is necessary, despite any argument or fact in favor of it, except that it allows Sarkozy to get the racist vote.

An unfair law that serves no purposes should be repealed even for one death.

Legally, some categories of immigrants have the right to remain in France and thus to get papers (Carte de séjour) without asking for the French citizenship. Ill people who could be healed if sent back to their country, family of people who have the right to stay in France (because the right to live with one's family is a human right) ; usually, foreign employees have no limit to their visas... But even for those being illegally in France, forcefully deporting them requires more arguments than simply wanting to appease racists.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères