Illegal Immigration vs An Invasion

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Jonathan V. Last has a good piece over at the Weekly Standard that notes that while we have a big problem with illegal immigrants crossing our borders and inhabiting our various cities along the border and in the South-West, it pales in comparison to the immigration problems that our friends in Europe are currently confronted with. While we're worried about illegal aliens taking our jobs or causing a great burden on tax payers (free education, healthcare, and public assistance), the folks of Europe are be inundated with immigrants from Northern Africa, who are slowly but surely transforming European society and culture from a predominately Christian and Western society(500 years and going) into a predominately Muslim society much like they ones that they left behind. I think Last pretty much makes our complaints about immigration look like child's play compared to the Europeans when he notes:

That's not nothing, but, still, it could be much, worse. Demographers note what are called channels of migrations, meaning that particular groups of people tend to migrate to particular destinations for an array of logistical, cultural and social reasons. America gets Hispanics. Europe gets Arab and African Muslims. According to Robert Leiken, the director of the Immigration and National Security Program at the Nixon Center, Muslims comprise "the bulk of immigrants in countries such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain." The numbers are comparable across the rest of Western Europe, too.

And unlike America's Hispanic immigrants, many Muslim immigrants in Europe have conflicted feelings about the underpinnings of Western liberalism. In France, there are car burnings and clashes about laïcité; in Holland, Islamist immigrants have been making death threats against politicians and public figures; in Denmark, Muslims are unhappy with the idea of a free press; in Sweden, where T-shirts proclaiming "2030--then we take over" have become popular with Muslim youths, authorities are struggling to deal with the rise of honor killings.

In America, we have fights over bilingual education.

Yes, we have an immigration problem; but, as these things go, we've got it easy.

So at least we only have to deal with illegals crossing our borders to find jobs rather than to transform our society into the some new caliphate as in Europe. I'm still for curbing illegal immigration and support the House's measure on doing so but am not in a hysteria like Michael Savage or others because I can always point to Europe and say "at least we don't have this junk to deal with."

For more on Europe's problems see here, here, here and here.