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By:Pat Buchanan | June 19, 2018
"It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," says former first lady
Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of "zero tolerance," under
which the children of illegal migrants are being detained apart from their
parents.
"Disgraceful," adds Dr. Franklin Graham.
"We need to be . . . a country that governs with a heart," says first lady
Melania Trump. "No one likes this policy," says White House aide Kellyanne
Conway, even "the president wants this to end."
And so it shall-given the universal denunciations and photos of sobbing
children being pulled from parents. Yet striking down the policy will leave
America's immigration crisis still unresolved.
Consider. Since 2016, some 110,000 children have entered the U.S. illegally
and been released, along with 200,000 Central American families caught
sneaking across the border.
Reflecting its frustration, the White House press office declared:
"We can't deport them, we can't separate them, we can't detain them,
we can't prosecute them. What (the Democrats) want is a radical open-border
policy that lets everyone out into the interior of this country with
virtually no documentation whatsoever."
Where many Americans see illegal intruders, Democrats see future voters.
And with 11,000 kids of illegal immigrants in custody and 250 more arriving
every day, we could have 30,000 in custody by summer's end.
More from Chronicles on Immigration:
"Immigration and the GOP (Again!)" by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
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"Immigration and Citizenship: Ancient Lessons for the American People" by E.
Christian Kopff
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"Tongues of Fire: America's Phony Religion of Immigration" by Aaron D. Wolf
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The existential question, however, thus remains: How does the West, America
included, stop the flood tide of migrants before it alters forever the
political and demographic character of our nations and our civilization?
The U.S. Hispanic population, already estimated at nearly 60 million, is
predicted to exceed 100 million by 2050, just 32 years away.
And Europe's southern border is more imperiled than ours.
A week ago, the new populist regime in Rome refused to allow a boat full of
migrants from Libya to land in Sicily. Malta also turned them away. After a
voyage of almost a week and 1,000 miles, 630 migrants were landed in
Valencia, Spain.
Why did Italy reject them? Under EU law, migrants apply for asylum in the
country where they first enter Europe. This burdens Italy and Greece where
the asylum-seekers have been arriving for years.
Of the landing in Spain, Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini, a leader
of the populist League party, chortled:
"I thank the Spanish government. I hope they take in the other
66,629 refugees (inside Italy). We will not be offended if the French follow
the Spanish, the Portuguese and Maltese, we will be the happiest people on
earth."
If the migrants boats of the Med are redirected to Spanish ports, one
suspects that the Spanish people will soon become as unwelcoming as many
other peoples in Europe.
And Trump is not backing down. Monday he tweeted:
"The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as
migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany
is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people
in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!"
Whatever European leaders may think of him, many Europeans are moving in
Trump's direction, toward more restrictions on immigration.
In Germany, a political crisis is percolating. The Bavarian-based CSU,
longtime coalition partner of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, is now talking
divorce if Merkel does not toughen German policy.
Merkel has never fully recovered from the nationalist backlash against the
million migrants she allowed in from Syria's civil war. A New Year's Eve
rampage in Cologne, featuring wilding attacks on German girls by Arabs and
Muslims, cost her dearly.
Among the reasons Bavarians are pulling away from Berlin is that, being in
the south of Germany, Bavaria is a primary point of entry.
Virtually every one of the populist parties of Europe, especially of the
right, have arisen to contest or to seize power by riding the issue of mass
migration from Africa and the Middle East.
Yet the progressives adamantly refuse to act, apparently paralyzed by a
belief that restricting the free movement of peoples from foreign lands
violates one of the great commandments of liberal democracy.
We are truly dealing here with an ideology of Western suicide.
If Europe does not act, its future is predictable.
The population of Africa, right across the Med, is anticipated to climb to
2.5 billion by midcentury. And by 2100, Africa will be home half of all the
people of the planet.
If but a tiny fraction of the African and Middle Eastern population decides
to cross the Mediterranean to occupy the emptying towns and villages of an
aging and dying continent, who and what will stop them?
Trump may be on the wrong side politically and emotionally of this issue of
separating migrant kids from their parents.
But on the mega-issue-the Third World invasion of the West-he is riding the
great wave of the future, if the West is to have a future.
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