Posted on 08/04/2026 6:05:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Given the unchecked flood of illegal immigration now taking place across the European continent and Britain, the headline above asks a valid question: Will Europe in the future exist only as a territory, but not as a civilization and a culture?
Spain is the latest flashpoint in Europe’s battle to maintain control over its borders.
Last week’s stunning border break in Ceuta, a North African enclave that has been part of Spain for over 400 years, should be a wake-up call for all of Europe and the U.S., too. More than 60,000 migrants crossed en masse, with at least 57 dying in the violent chaos of breaking through the border and swimming ashore to Ceuta, population 80,000.
Blame Spain for the surge.
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government in April passed a plan intending to give legal status to about half a million illegal immigrants. Instead, the program unexpectedly attracted a million applicants.
Meanwhile, a recent decision by Spain’s Supreme Court that any illegal immigrants arriving to Spanish territory by sea couldn’t be immediately deported might as well have been an engraved invitation.
The message went out: Spain’s now open territory. Desperate North African men (those arriving were overwhelmingly men, and all were desperate) saw this as an open invitation, with lots of potential loopholes to exploit.
Not surprisingly, terrified European Union countries are reacting, heaping criticism on Spain for its lax border controls and even talking about suspending the Schengen Treaty with Spain, which lets EU’s citizens freely move from one country to another. EU nations fear being overwhelmed by waves of new illegal immigrants, thanks to Spain’s irresponsible policies.
“The prime ministers of 22 out of 27 EU member states have written a joint letter to the EU, demanding an emergency summit over the invasion of illegal migrants in Ceuta,” wrote Visegrad 24 on X. “They are outraged by the recent ruling of the Spanish Supreme Court.”
President Donald Trump has jumped in, calling the illegal rush into Spain a “catastrophe” and an “invasion.”
The U.S. State Department also wasted no time in criticizing Spain, calling the migrant surge “unacceptable” and part of “the Spanish government’s deliberate efforts to enable and facilitate mass illegal migration into Europe.”
But as bad as Spain’s open-door immigration policies are under Sanchez and his socialist allies, the EU has little room to criticize. It has had disastrous open-border policies for decades.
Tragically, across the EU, and in Britain too, the experiment with lax immigration has brought violent crime, created a low-productivity welfare culture, turned once-quiet suburbs into hostile immigrant enclaves, and brought aggressively anti-Western radical Islamists into Europe from North Africa, the Mideast, and South Asia.
The once-boring post-war capitals of Europe now teem with angry, unassimilated immigrants. Swaths of many major cities — London, Berlin, Paris, and Rome among them — are no-go zones.
So the EU’s stinging criticisms of Spain ring a bit hollow. Many EU members have been doing the same thing since at least World War II. But now governments across Europe are feeling the heat from conservative and centrist political parties that seek stronger border controls.
It’s fed by the fact that the EU no longer has enough babies to increase its population and boost economic growth. Take away immigration, and Europe’s shrinking, as the chart below shows:
Source: Rockwool Foundation, Berlin (https://www.rfberlin.com/cream-report/03-2026/).
So Spain has become a major illegal immigrant spigot. Estimates show that between 50,000 and 70,000 new illegal entrants come to Europe across Spain’s beaches each year. Meanwhile, Spain’s leftist government (and the EU) has looked the other way.
“In 2024 alone, the (Spanish) population rose by over half a million, driven overwhelmingly by immigration,” wrote Spanish journalist Antonio O’Mullony. “At the same time, the number of (native-born) Spaniards fell by roughly 130,000. Spain adds inhabitants but loses nationals.”
Spain and the rest of the EU hope that the tide of illicit newcomers will fill low-level jobs that native-born Europeans won’t do, while paying the exorbitant taxes needed to keep the EU’s bankrupt socialist-welfare state model afloat. Euro-socialists just love illegal immigration.
Sadly, socialist thinking is common these days. Indeed, in the U.S., if the self-avowed socialists who now control the Democratic Party win Congress in 2026 and the White House in 2028, America will be in big trouble, Spanish-style. So your vote will matter.
For America’s socialists, open borders are a first step to getting rid of the rule of law and the Constitution, both of which the Democratic Socialists of America have as stated goals.
Spain and the rest of the EU have failed their own citizens by letting in millions of people who will never be productive, patriotic citizens. So to answer the question in our headline, yes, Europe is dying. And if the U.S. wants to avoid the same fate, it shouldn’t repeat the EU’s immigration mistakes.
Look at the “thinking” that led them to this. Woke ideas: racism, white privilege, self-loathing guilt have led to their opening of the floodgates. Same as here. Millions of soldiers admitted under Biden. The difference is we are used to dealing with them and will dispatch them if needed. Europeans are defenseless. Americans are not. We are patient to a fault, as is prudent considering the alternative, but not defenseless.
America is next in corrupt November
Europistan rising. Moose limbs can’t wait to destroy places like Notre dame(again) and other offending Christian locations.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts USA the state government is setting up to ‘commission’ moslem advisors on including moslems in government. To the same bad end.
None of these analysts never connect the low birth rate of indigenous population with massive legal and illegal immigration. As immigration goes up indigenous child birth goes down .
They're still angry over the Opium Wars.
People can drop the legal-illegal labeling game, it is the people and their numbers that are overwhelming America and the West.
Exactly! Frustrating to no end when people, who don’t want to be labeled racist/xenophobic, say “I’m for legal immigration!” Dumdasses. Stroke of the pen, they’re legal.
I don’t see how the UK can survived this constant onslaught:
Aug. 4th, 2026:
“Open Borders Burnham: Over 2,000 Illegals Arrive in First Two Weeks of New PM’s Tenure”
Rome had a problem with uncontrolled immigration 1600 years ago.
They’re in their last gasps ... put a fork in it, they’re done.
Europe has been trying to commit suicide for centuries in one wave of suicidal madness after another!
How many times will America send her sons to die to save Europe from another wave of self-destructive madness?
And if she does, what will be the next wave of insanity?
Will America save Europe again?
The cost is staggering!
All over Europe lie the graves of America's sons!
How many more?
I don’t know, I’m more worried about it being the end of America.
This might have been something to contemplate 25 years ago.
Now insane open border policies have pushed much (perhaps most) of Europe past the tipping point and the new muslim caliphate is rapidly coalescing.
Imagine a NATO largely financed by American taxpayers yet populated by and dominated by muslim controlled countries dedicated to the overthrow of America.
That nightmare will soon be a reality.
“Will Illegal Immigration Be The Death Of Europe?”
Will the Muslim Invasion Be The Death Of the USA?
There, fixed it
Its already happened.
Like McConnell, Europe is already dead.
But the staff needs a few more paychecks.
You cannot claim to be a civilized country that has equal imposition of law if an entire class can be visibly seen as violating that law with impunity.
Like royalty cannot be punished — there is no rule of law.
This is the path of true revolution. With guillotines.
Um, the year 2100 is only 74 years away - so you might make it!
Regards,
Perhaps only until the "them" you speak of owns our government.
"They" are enjoying a rapidly increasing gain of political positions and power.
Tragically, some or much of that gain is due to the efforts of domestic enemies and international adversaries.
In any event, whether future elections are riddled by fraud may well become immaterial.
The next federal election could easily become the "tipping point".
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