Without immigrant workers, hospitals would have an even harder time functioning.THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP
In their new, highly documented speculative novel, both a political thriller and burlesque farce, Guillaume Hannezo, Hakim El Karoui, and Thierry Pech imagine a France in 2030 governed by Philippe de Villiers, led to the Élysée by a united right-wing bloc. At the heart of “Without Them,” published by Les Petits Matins, is an intuition as simple as it is chilling: pushed to their ultimate consequences, the promises of border closures, national preference, and mass deportations of immigrants would trigger an administrative, economic, and political mechanism far more formidable than the slogans that carry them.
A reading that resonates with current events, as Bruno Retailleau has just criticized Spain’s Pedro Sanchez and his project to regularize nearly half a million undocumented migrants to support his country’s economy.
