The scenes are heartbreaking, such as those of sick and dying children on the shores of the EU. The Economist estimates that 23,000 have lost their lives since 2000 attempting to enter the European continent. The Gatestone Institute reports that more than 175,000 have applied for asylum during the past 12 months. Many, many more are entering illegally.
Across the Atlantic, the Migration Policy Institute notes that “In 2013, approximately 41.3 million immigrants [legal and illegal] lived in the United States, an all-time high for a nation historically built on immigration. The United States remains a popular destination attracting about 20 percent of the world’s international migrants, even as it represents less than 5 percent of the global population. Immigrants accounted for 13 percent of the total 316 million U.S. residents; adding the U.S.-born children (of all ages) of immigrants means that approximately 80 million people, or one-quarter of the overall U.S. population, is either of the first or second generation.”
Impoverished families crossing the U.S. southern border present wrenching views. The Pew Research Institute estimates that there are approximately 11.3 million illegals in the U.S. Pew also notes that “President Obama’s executive action on immigration, announced Nov. 20, 2014, would among other things expand deportation relief to almost half the unauthorized immigrant population, though this part of the program is on hold due to a lawsuit to stop the move.” Unauthorized immigrants make up 5.1% of the U.S. labor force.
The reactions to this wave of humanity range from an abundance of sympathy, such as that exhibited by President Obama’s very lax enforcement of American immigration law, to the exclusionary policies advocated by some European political groups. Even Pope Francis has weighed in, urging Christian charity for the masses on the move.
The United Nations Refugee Agency has noted:
“Since the late 1970s, the international community has been well aware of the severe impact that large scale refugee populations can have on the social, economic and political life of host developing countries… From the moment of arrival, refugees compete with the local citizens for scarce resources such as land, water, housing, food and medical services. Over time, their presence leads to more substantial demands on natural resources, education and health facilities, energy, transportation, social services and employment. They may cause inflationary pressures on prices and depress wages. In some instances, they can significantly alter the flow of goods and services within the society as a whole and their presence may have implications for the host country’s balance of payment and undermine structural adjustment initiatives… The heavy price that host countries have to pay in providing asylum to refugees is now widely recognized.”
But, perhaps for reasons of political correctness and an embarrassment of past instances of colonialism, the actual causes of illegal immigration and the only workable solutions to the crisis remain largely unspoken.
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The poverty, war and other conditions from which most of the refugees flee are largely not the results of a natural disaster, such as a famine or flood, but from bad regimes.
The fact is, the governments from which most of the current waves of immigrants hail from are corrupt, incompetent, repressive, or adhere to economic philosophies that simply don’t work. Their misdeeds and/or ineptness force many of their citizenry to seek refuge and sustenance elsewhere. In essence, the populations of the United States and Europe are forced to pay for the stupidity or malfeasance of other nations.
DW, discussing the lack of candor in Africa about the reasons for the immigration crisis, noted:
“Tens of thousands of refugees risk their lives trying to get to Europe. Surprisingly this sort of news rarely makes front page in Africa. ‘The migrant boat tragedy is not just Europe’s problem,’ a title by the ‘Daily Maverick’, a South African daily, silently screams.
“The African Union communications department has been very busy lately, issuing statements on subjects as varied and diverse as the Sudanese elections, the killing of Ethiopian citizens by ‘Islamic State’ (IS) in Libya, the xenophobic violence in South Africa and the marketing of Africa’s ‘Agenda 2063’ to Polish investors. Nothing, however, on the boatloads of Africans risking everything to escape the continent. Nothing on the hundreds of corpses floating in the Mediterranean.”
There should be an international discussion on placing penalties and sanctions on governments that create the conditions that cause many of their citizens to flee. While some may claim that this constitutes interference in the internal affairs of the nations affected, it is appropriate, pragmatic and, indeed, humanitarian to eliminate, at the source, the conditions which give rise to the necessity of mass immigration.