World War “I” – Immigration

Make no mistake about it: the world is at war. A global “migrant” crisis is sweeping across Europe, the Middle East and North America as people smugglers and warring entities send desperate souls to countries that can ill afford to absorb the tremendous numbers that show up on their soil. Combined with immigrants that are seeking soft borders for a better life it is a crisis that is causing no end of human tragedy, one that is encouraged here in the United States and wreaking havoc abroad.

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We must flip the tables on Open Border advocates and expose the lies behind the conventional wisdom that any stance contrary to the Euro-Progressive one is racist or cruel. Illegal immigration is dangerous for everybody involved, leaving a trail of pain, suffering, crime and financial disaster. It is time to have that national discussion and shed light upon the situation within a global scope.

I typically think of immigration in two distinct terms. My first concern is the danger that open border policies have on American society. Drugs, human trafficking, crime, gangs, guns, rapes; essentially all the things that are ignored by open border advocates. My second primary concern is with politicians on both the right and the left who take a stance that is contrary to the concerns and wishes of a majority of the citizens they claim to represent.

Recently I read a post at Legal Insurrection that had me thinking of the immigration problem in a new light. The migrant crisis in Europe and across the globe has gotten so bad that it is being called the worst crisis since WWII.

My first thought when I saw an image of illegal immigrants scaling a wall in Greece (or perhaps Spain) was that I was seeing an eerie real life recreation of a scene from the Brad Pitt movie World War Z .

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The parallels between the fictional scenes in World War Z and that of the reality surrounding illegal immigration are striking.

In World War Z the zombie problem quickly grew into a catastrophe of global proportions. The one safe zone is found in Israel where a wall was built around Jerusalem to keep the zombies out and allow screened individuals safe passage in. (Naturally there is an implication that Israel somehow had advance knowledge of the impending plaque and was able to get ahead of the disaster.) The use of a wall is successful until the zombies are attracted to the riches of the safe zone and quickly attack it en-masse until they eventually overrun the border wall and engulf the city. The breaching of the wall destroyed the orderly influx of screened immigrants and everything in the path of the zombie wall climbers was quickly laid to waste.

A wall represents a barrier that is reinforced by a policy that dictates who, when, why and how much. A good wall that is governed by a strategic management plan is the only acceptable way to handle the situation. Once that wall is breached society is no longer protected in a manner that is of the most benefit to the people it protects.

The fictional parallels from World War Z aren’t much different than what is happening across the world today as illegal immigrants pour across Europe and into North America. Their exodus from Central America, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Africa is so massive that nations find themselves unable to provide vital food, shelter and medicine. This in turn has created a circle of chaos where nations and ideological factions blame each other. This is causing widespread resentment as both sides are now desperate because of this human tragedy.

World War “I” is a war with multiple fronts, one that pits nations against human traffickers, citizens against politicians, immigrants against citizens and terrorists against the civilized society. It is the latter that is most grave as terrorists are taking advantage of the situation to fund their wars and evade authorities as they sneak in alongside the refugees they have created.

Much of the global immigration crisis today is an artifact of Islamic based wars in the Middle East (mostly Syria) and Africa (mostly Libya). These wars have spawned a multi-million dollar human trafficking trade that is so evil even ISIS has gotten in on the game by skimming the profits of human traffickers. This human tax is used to fund their wars and buy new weapons of mass destruction. It is now believed that Islamic terrorists, ISIS and others, are sneaking in alongside the refugees to evade detection by the authorities, posing as refugees themselves.

Desperate people are shoved into overcrowded boats and shipped across the Mediterranean only to be killed at sea after being beaten, raped and starved along the way. Others travel dangerous routes by land to suffer the same tragic ending.

Time magazine notes that the Mediterranean has Become a Mass Grave as Europe Struggles With Migrant Crisis. The image below demonstrates common travel conditions.

June 7, 2014 - Mediterranean Sea / Italy: Italian navy rescues asylum seekers traveling by boat off the coast of Africa. More than 2,000 migrants jammed in 25 boats arrived in Italy June 12, ending an international operation to rescue asylum seekers traveling from Libya. They were taken to three Italian ports and likely to be transferred to refugee centers inland. Hundreds of women and dozens of babies, were rescued by the frigate FREMM Bergamini as part of the Italian navy's "Mare Nostrum" operation, launched last year after two boats sank and more than 400 drowned. Favorable weather is encouraging thousands of migrants from Syria, Eritrea and other sub-Saharan countries to arrive on the Italian coast in the coming days. Cost of passage is in the 2,500 Euros range for Africans and 3,500 for Middle Easterners, per person. Over 50,000 migrants have landed Italy in 2014. Many thousands are in Libya waiting to make the crossing. (Massimo Sestini/Polaris)

When we think of these people we should keep in mind that many are minor children, abandoned and sold. Many men and women that are being persecuted in their own native lands, victims of war or victims of rival gangs; it matters not the reason as the journey is much the same.

The destinations are many as illegal immigrants seek refuge and hope in Turkey, Greece, France, Italy, Germany the UK, United States and Canada.

Thousands upon thousands of children, women and men are killed in horrible unspeakable ways as a result and the profits of this trade are going to fund terrorists that want more war.

The situation is so dire that some in Great Britain are calling for an exodus from the European Union because of EU policies that calls for each member nation to take “its fair share” of asylum seekers and refugees, and share the burden of resettlement and deportation of people who aren’t entitled to stay. Problem being that “fair share” is one of those politically charged phrases measured in terms of liberal perceptions that are devoid of reality and often if not primarily based on class systems that pit one against the other. Fair share is an excuse to place an unequal burden on one segment of society to benefit another. In terms of immigration it has member nations in the EU fighting against one another. Not surprisingly the UN is in the middle. Meanwhile the crisis gets worse as solutions are far and few.

Normally this crisis would be a teachable moment except for ideologically marginalized liberals that are incapable of comprehending the disastrous effects of their bleeding heart policies. Rather than do something logical and look at the situation with open eyes they point fingers at each other for not doing enough.

This should be a grave concern for every country by politicians that are charged with protecting the people they represent.

In the United States this crisis is such a low priority that we are given lip service by activists and politicians that see illegal immigration as way to secure low wages on the right and a way to build future coalitions of voters on the left. Politicians on both sides of the political aisle pretend that their encouragement and policy stances have no ill affect on society. They largely ignore the millions of people that suffer and die as they attempt the perilous journey to the promise of a new land.  In doing so they ignore the horrible toll that this is having on both the illegal immigrants and the nations they invade.

Immigration, both legal and illegal is the one topic the Republicans could own for the next election. Discussed in the right context it can connect to every single American. It affects every facet of society. Instead the Republican leadership is ready to make war with its own base rather than discuss the cost in real terms, the depressed wages, the increased crime, the overburdened schools, the impact on medical facilities, the rise in the illegal drug trade and the terrible human toll that ranges from rape to beatings and slavery.

This is a disaster that needs more than demagoguing and lip service. It is coming to a head both here and abroad and we should hold every politician that ignores it accountable at the ballot box. This threatens everybody and should be one of the biggest topics of the upcoming election.

I will continue to discuss this topic in future posts. For now please share this on your social sites. We need this discussion. Many thanks to Bookworm for allowing me a forum to publish my research and opinions.

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