Is it time for an immigration reality check?
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 8:19 pm
Just something I've been thinking about after all the teeth gnashing over the popularity of Marine Le Pen's party in France.
This is a graphic I saw on Twitter showing that right-wing populist parties get more support in European countries that have more Muslim immigration.
The way I see it we (meaning the West as a whole) have 3 options:
1. Continue to allow mass immigration and allow right-wing populism to get more powerful every year.
2. Shut the borders down and just let these people in these countries rot.
3. Raise taxes on western elites and use them to build up the most destitute countries in the world.
1 is IMO the worst option without a doubt and is almost like having the worst of both worlds. 3 could be said to be the best one but will make you unpopular on both the political left and right. The bottom line is, though, that economic intervention is something proven to work (i.e the Marshall Plan) while I'd argue multiculturalism has no real history of working.
And yes, I understand Muslim immigrants in the US are generally much more educated than the average American, but that's not the case for Muslims in Europe or people from Mexico and Central America in the US. It's not hard to assimilate a someone from Saudi Arabia with a Materials Science Phd, but regular people from developing countries are another story.
This is a graphic I saw on Twitter showing that right-wing populist parties get more support in European countries that have more Muslim immigration.
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The way I see it we (meaning the West as a whole) have 3 options:
1. Continue to allow mass immigration and allow right-wing populism to get more powerful every year.
2. Shut the borders down and just let these people in these countries rot.
3. Raise taxes on western elites and use them to build up the most destitute countries in the world.
1 is IMO the worst option without a doubt and is almost like having the worst of both worlds. 3 could be said to be the best one but will make you unpopular on both the political left and right. The bottom line is, though, that economic intervention is something proven to work (i.e the Marshall Plan) while I'd argue multiculturalism has no real history of working.
And yes, I understand Muslim immigrants in the US are generally much more educated than the average American, but that's not the case for Muslims in Europe or people from Mexico and Central America in the US. It's not hard to assimilate a someone from Saudi Arabia with a Materials Science Phd, but regular people from developing countries are another story.
