Import the third world ...

American Thinker ^ | 20 Apr, 2025 | Monica Showalter

[MtnClimber]

There's a common saying that comes up any time mayhem is committed by illegal immigrants:

Import the third world, get the third world.

The examples that trigger this saying tend to be crimes that happen everywhere -- murder, robbery, rape, assault -- though the frequencies differ from country to country.

What is common to the third world though, is something more subtle, known as 'informality': the phenomeon of living without rule of law (or property rights).

In any country where you see big shack cities ringing a country's capital on its outskirts, you've got sizable evidence of what Peruvian economists Hernando de Soto identified as 'informality,' meaning, people lack title deed to their homes, cannot sell them, cannot take loans on them, cannot improve them, and don't have access to any true rule of law, though it's common that gangs set up informal rules, and enforce them through force. The strange thing is, the residents of these places are effectively treated like illegal aliens in their own countries, which if that's the case, makes it pretty easy to pull up stakes and live as an illegal alien in another country. After all, what's the difference?

De Soto described this in two brilliant books he wrote a couple decades ago: The Other Path and the Mystery of Capital. David Freddoso wrote an excellent piece about his thinking for Investor's Business Daily in 2015 here.

In the San Fernando Valley area ringing Los Angeles, which is loaded with illegal immigrants, there was an infuriating case of a sports coach who murdered a child in his care.

Illegal alien Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, a Salvadoran, was arrested for murdering Oscar Omar Hernandez, a 13-year-old from Honduras, very likely also an illegal immigrant here with his family.

[sheana]

I lived in a nice country club area. Nice big houses with green lawns and large backyards with pools. Golf course right across the street I lived on. Family from Guatemala (that’s what my neighbor told me) moved in. Net thing you know there’s a dance studio in their garage and a front yard full of plastic chairs. They’d all sit in the chairs in the front yard and drink beer. They never used the backyard. I called the county and had their dance studio shut down but they still used the front yard. They didn’t make the payments and the house was foreclosed on and sold. Everyone was happy. They ruined the neighborhood.

[SMARTY]

I’ve deen that kind of thing before, too.

I don’t get how people can move into an area and never try to assimilate or at least respect thier neighbors