A " caravan " of thousands of men, women and children is slowly making its way through Mexico with the intention of crossing a bridge over the Rio Grande and applying for asylum at the American border. President Donald Trump will despatch thousands of American troops to guard that border and refuse these people entry.
This caravan consists of people from a variety of individual countries that are badly governed and riddled with gangster activity that trades in drugs. They suffer a lack of job opportunities and their police are usually corrupt. They claim this moving exodus as exercising their right as refugees to seek sanctuary in the United States.
Europe is facing a virtual invasion of refugees fleeing the war in the Middle East and Africans seeking relief from the dismal economic prospects of many failed small countries. They are facing closed borders and host countries are having assimilation problems that are threatening to install illiberal governments. One of the main reasons Great Britain is quitting the EU is to regain border control.
Australia has people stranded in Nauru without hope of repatriation because the promise that they will never be granted the right to settle in Australia is holding back a flood of people waiting in refugee camps in Asia from boarding boats and forcing their way onto our shores.
Flows of refugees has always been the way of this world. Religious persecution has been one of the many reasons but today the impetus is often just a better lifestyle. People in countries with a broken economy seek refuge in countries they hope will allow their children to advance in life and prosper. Planet Earth is now home to over seven billion people and many host countries are past the point when they can comfortably absorb this flow of newcomers.
When people pull up stakes and depart a stricken country - nothing changes. The corruption that sent them packing remains in place. Renewal usually comes from within when the population is forced into revolt and that does not happen when the pressure is relieved by constant and perpetual immigration. Many countries are in desperate need of a bloody civil war which will sweep away rotten regimes and create renewal. Usually that happens when they close their borders and imprison their people - as evidenced by the collapse of the Communist German state.
We are seeing a refugee refusal steadily building in many parts of the world and in particular it manifests itself in closed borders. Countries that permit an orderly flow of immigrants who follow due process are hardening their borders to refugee flows that simply force their way through such barriers. This immigration issue is capable of politically replacing compassionate government with hard right conservative regimes by public demand in immigrant receiving countries.
When unhappy people have no place to go they have no other option than to fix the regime that is delivering oppression. That is often bloody and sacrifices many lives, but it was also the basis of many regimes that are now the main immigration destinations !
The message resonating is loud and clear. Fix your own problems - and don't bring them here !
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