Looking deep into the immigration wave
The West awakes
and abruptly - and eventually - notices the ongoing immigration crisis at its
gates. Media and politic are focusing their and our attention to the borders,
be them between USA and Mexico or Europe and Northern Africa and Middle East.
However, long waves come from afar and this
situation has been developing for years. We mostly ignored the causes of this
immigration, leaving them unchecked.
Blitzkrieg on the economic front
Some immigration is due to political chaos and ongoing
conflicts. In many other cases, the reasons are economic. Choosing not to
regulate the numbers and means of immigration, and not addressing its causes,
we allowed it to become the major social issue that is presently confronting
us.
The issue is also moral and
yet it also is made into a business with many illegal shades: moving immigrants
closer to borders; employing them underpaid or
leaving them without honest jobs at all, ready to be exploited by criminal organizations1; and eventually being left alone or supported for free by public
welfare2.
In these conditions, it is
extremely doubtful that an unregulated immigration like this could be able to
rescue our economy from crisis. In a struggling system we try to insert another
bad forged gear and we wonder why the mechanism does not increase
functionality?
Red alert on the social front
On the social side, the process of integration that
supposedly should build a working multi-ethnic
society is mostly failing. Too many people, migrating together, will retain
their identity and culture, creating societies within societies3, tending to segregation and not to integration. This may even favor the spreading of various types of extremism, not last the religious one.
In
part fearing the label of racism, we are allowing areas around and within our
cities where our laws are opposed by other standards; despite manstream media trying to deny it4, that is the case of ethnic
gangs and of Muslim neighbourhoods ruled by integralist Islam5. This gives us
insight into what future attends this model of immigration - the way we had
managed it so far does not work.
Instead of adding synergy to
our society by making immigration a virtuous circle, we are adding factors of
instability in a mix potentially dangerous.
Disappointing moral front
In open polemic with 'sovranist' Governments in USA
and Europe, Liberals and moralists, Globalists and mainstream media supporting
them advocate for the right to migrate. Even with the system proving itself a
failure, we should open our hearts - and, most importantly, our borders.
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Pity that God built our
Countries a bit too small.
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While still attempting to
negate the negative impact of unregulated immigration, moralists pretend to act
as the West conscience: if we do not take in as many migrants as we can, we are
the culprits of everyone of them who dies. Of course, we could ask: as many as
we can? And how many can we? How many are enough? How can we save everyone, can we empty the ocean one glass at a time
or drinking it altogether?
Then, if moralists are really
well meaning, why should migrants come through dangerous routes, risking their
lives or detention? Why should NGOs (Non Governative Organizations) pick up
migrants a few miles from African coasts to ferry them to Europe6 , or why should
migrants attempt to cross the sea by themselves? If immigrants have
unconditional rights to migrate, we should just unconditionally open borders
and let them come in. Are we not ready to take them all? Or are not willing to?
Will not moralists open their homes, just urge others to? Then it is not even
moralism, it is just hypocrisy pretending.
Why and how immigration turned like this?
Indeed, why Liberals, moralists and media so staunchly
support an immigration model that is so evidently an announced disaster? Again,
there are multiple reasons because of the multiple interests adding to each
other.
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Even faced with Institutional crisis
over this, she hardly considers to have
been wrong about immigration.
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There are people making money
with the immigration business in the present form7. There are ideologists
who theorizes a hastily built multi-cultural 'fluid' society. There are moralists,
so-called Liberals, several religious echelons8, and so on, who likes to be - or
appear – well meaning, while having lost their
values on many other fronts; people who think it is safe to superimpose
their ideas on reality and ignore the differences.
All combined, those people
ruled the West or actively conditioned its political address leading us to the
present crisis. They built a faulty and hypocritical moral code, trying to enforce it on everyone. Reality is consistently proving
them wrong: the immigration model they allowed is not working for anyone but a
select few, for sure not for immigrants and not for the average American or
European citizen. People, as citizen and electors, can stand up against this looking
at different solution for the migratory issues. Even then, any Government -
with electoral consensus - trying to revise migratory policies has to endure
massive criticism from those same moralists.
Those who contributed to cause
the issues in the first place now refuse to allow for solution to be enacted -
and they must be hard solutions, because these are hard times. As bonus points,
they feel justified and entitled to take the chance and virulently attack
political rivals. Here please note that our society is a liberal one more in words
than in facts - just see the concordance by which mainstream media treat these
topics, they are called 'mainstream' for a reason.
What to do? The Countries to run from
The solution to this uncontrolled immigration must act
on two fronts: the departures and the arrivals, the Countries to run from and
the ones to run to. First, running is wrong anyway. Nobody should be forced to
run away from home - they may be migrate, but the very next step would be a
concerted effort to stabilize the original situation and reduce the pressure to
migrate in the first place. How? Underdeveloped Countries need to develop in an
efficient and responsible way.
Colonialism and
neo-colonialism often are used to explain why the Third World still is Third.
In fact, most Countries between South America, Africa and Asia became
independent between the Centuries XIX and XX, many just after the end of the
Second World War. They had several decades to improve; in part the
responsibility can be attributed to neo-colonialism and Western interferences,
in part it still is their fault.
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To trade and invest, we should recognize
the counterpart as equal. It is not happening.
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Political instabilities,
rampant corruption, allowing foreign interference in exchange for short-term
gain, should all be carefully avoided. Instead, most of them are bound to weak
politic and their democracy struggles. Evidently, it is such a convenient
system on so many levels that there is little interest in changing it.
Otherwise, the West has been quite active in enforcing democracy and its own
standards. On this point, we developed a bad habit of escalating wars to aid
our geo-political interests - be American in Afghanistan and Iraq, French in
Libya, mixed ones in Yemen - without actually resolving them. Be it a side-effect or the intended purpose, we spread instability in regions that
eventually reveal themselves able to affect us.
Many people try to run away
from war, of course - those are refugees. Luckily, there are ones remaining
behind to fight, otherwise now the Middle East would likely be a real Islamic
State. The West should just manage more carefully its military interventions.
If any, wars should be fast and swift successes or else include plans to deal
with the subsequent regional instability. This aspect has been consistently
underestimated, at least since 2001.
What to do? The Countries to run to
Now immigration results in dire economic and social
issues for the West and it is difficult to implement changes because of the
moral aspect. What is more striking is that people opposing those changes still
do not propose alternatives, implying that we have to get along and endure the
crisis. Trying to resolve the problems at the source, in the Countries where
immigrants come from, is by them considered unrealistic and a long-term
solution not viable to resolve the current emergency. Focusing on the West, the
First World where immigrants run to, we have to find an affordable immigration
model. Meanwhile, we should prove ourselves by fixing our economic crisis.
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| For sure, if we do not manage it smartly, and soon. |
How do we build an affordable
immigration, something that can be sustained and used to improve both our
society and the immigrants’ outlook? We really need a virtuous circle, taking
in just the people we can and not more. We need people who wants to work and
contribute to develop their hosting Country, give something to receive
something.
We need people to come to accept our laws, to respect our values and
to feel part of the society in which they live - not just their restricted
community of immigrants. Many people in the West are not racist - labelling
them as such is just searching for scapegoats to avoid looking at the bigger
problem. Instead, they are rightfully diffident because such a virtuous model
of immigration mostly does not exist. Leaving immigration uncontrolled, it
grows chaotic, difficult to integrate in any society, just like the Jungle at Calais9.
Building a virtuous model
immigration, starting now, will of course take time and developing the
Countries source of migration will take time as well. Meanwhile, the crisis
will not stop and it will bring woe and suffering. For this, it is urgent to
take action and implement efficient policies in both senses, internal and
external.
To look at the future is a
responsibility even greater than to look at our borders - be them open or
closed.
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