I'm trying to get a handle on why so much immigration has been permitted by the various countries. We weren't asked. We are told there will be x more from here and there. A whole industry has built up around resettling immigrants.
In the long run, it isn't going to work. It can't work really. Already we see this in our politicians pandering for the immigrant vote rather than do what is best for the country. I view that as a betrayal of sorts.
The excuse used is that these people do work that native populations no longer want to do. That's only part of the story. What happens when nobody wants to do that work? Already it appears we have subsidized immigrants who don't really contribute to the economies of our respective countries in a meaningful way. They seem to be rootless, do not want to assimilate other than for money, and they are in a "holding" pattern, waiting for something.
I suppose we brought it all upon ourselves when we broke up families, and allowed inflation to spike causing vast wage gaps.
Uncontrolled immigration causes resentment. People are changing and have short fuses everywhere. When we reach flashpoint, I don't know, but I fear it is coming. Europe will bear the brunt for now, but America could end up with a more serious problem because of the political power blocs of the various cultures, namely whites, hispanics and blacks.< Word wrap is on. Halleluia! Was having trouble with new posting system.
No, we certainly were NOT asked in the mid-1960s when Robert Kennedy convinced Congress to change the laws & admit more third-world immigrants so we could have more "diversity." Then the "family reunification" act made it virtually certain that few European *Caucasian* immigrants could come to the US. They obviously did not have the large extended families and thus couldn't bring in every cousin, sibling, niece, nephew etc.