Posted on 06/04/2015 4:26:29 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Tuscany — Northern and central Italy are not on the southern Mediterranean. But somehow thousands of refugees from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are everywhere here — as is true of much of the European Union. Some sleep on park benches. Many peddle knock-off electronic goods and counterfeit watches. Angry Italians shoo away refugee beggars from tour groups.
The Greek islands near the coast of Turkey are likewise flooded this summer with dispossessed refugees from countries such as Afghanistan and Syria. Apparently a bankrupt Greek government lacks the resources to patrol its vast coastline. Some beleaguered Greeks assume that thousands of boat people and homeless refugees will eventually leave their makeshift camps and head northward to the wealthier homelands of Greece’s Northern European creditors.
A similar rush has overwhelmed America’s southern border. In the last two years, tens of thousands of Central American and Mexican citizens have sensed that the Obama administration has suspended border enforcement. Illegal entry into the United States won’t result in punishment, but instead in an array of social services unimaginable in Latin America.
So, what explains this constant rush of the world’s poor families into the West? And why aren’t China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba, for example, flooded with illegal entrants?
The human exodus to Western countries is not always explained by a lack of natural wealth elsewhere. Iraq and Venezuela, for example, are awash in oil. Mexico has lots of oil, minerals, and fertile soil.
Wars may have driven scores of Afghans, North Africans, and Syrians from their homelands to the West, but most of Latin America is at relative peace.
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VDH ping ...
Free stuff.
Lower bills and liberals.
Well to answer that, just look at the world’s leading export economy, and the holder of the world’s largest population:
China.
China doesn’t allow an influx of migrants and refugees from anywhere.
They seem to be doing very well, thus far.
I say this “influx of migrants and refugees” from everywhere are taking our country away from us.
Sorry but it seems that way.
Both parties, are 100% participating in selling America out.
100%.
welfare, free housing, food, health, phones, , clothes, dental, education and political correctness helps them to get that.
"sensed" ...?...LOL
Heck, they darn near got engraved invitations from this rouge administration
They hate the West.
Why are they here ?
A massive influx of migrants was inevitable given the weakness of today’s western leaders combined with the chaos of the Arab Spring and Obama’s other incompetent policies.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhh!!!!!!
Its free stuff!
FREE STUFF!!! FREE STUFF!!!!!
(They’re not interested in all the other ‘things’!)
If these immigrants will be “enriching” the US, how are they not enriching their home countries now? Anyone?
Come for the free stuff, stay for the Jihad
“If these immigrants will be “enriching” the US, how are they not enriching their home countries now? Anyone?”
And the DemocRAT Chorus sang out -—Wachu got agin them po folk jist tryin to feed their families at our expense? sarc/off
Why do they (or VDH?) do that? Scratches head ...
I don’t know
Unfortunately true. The word on the street is that there is free stuff in the West and the doors are wide open.
You got the picture in more ways than one.
Years ago, a bad economy resulted in demands for more jobs.
Today, a bad economy results in demands for more welfare.
Later
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