Immigration from the Third World

 

We've all heard variations of the meme that "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World".  To a large extent, it's true - just look at the crime, welfare and health statistics of most enclaves of such immigrants and they tell their own story.  Unfortunately, it's regarded as racist to point out that reality.

Lawdog has written a blunt, in-your-face summary of Third World reality.

When you import the 3rd World, you get 3rd World values

He's only the latest to point out that reality - and although he's writing about Somalia, you can extend his conclusions to cover the whole of tribal Africa.  I've written about that at length myself:  see my article "What to do about Africa?" for an in-depth discussion.  (For an overseas perspective, The Spectator's Australian edition published earlier this year an article titled "Importing the third world: The cost of accepting immigrants who don’t share our values is too high".  It's also worth reading.)

Like Lawdog, I grew up in Africa, and I've worked in most sub-Saharan African states.  I entirely agree with him.  The whole continent is a colossal mess, and probably will remain so, because nobody is ready, willing or able to impose a working system of ethics and social standards upon the existing morass.  It's no wonder so many are trying to flee the continent by any means possible, even risking their lives to do so - because staying put will be just as great a risk to their lives, if not greater.  Many will quite willingly commit murder if that's the only way to get here.  I know.  I've seen it happen.

Far too many of our illegal immigrants come from backgrounds like this.  Only by removing them from our midst will our own crime, welfare and health burden be eased, because they're a very large part of the reason why it's so heavy.

Peter