Imagine a dystopian novel in which a million or so desperate migrants in a hundred battered old ships arrive off the coast of France and disembark.
“Poor people hounded by deprivation, entire families with women and children, hordes come from the South of our world, drawn to the Promised land. They have hope. They inspire immense pity. They are weak. They are unarmed. They have the power of numbers.”
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