“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” 

It once sounded nice, but no more.

Thousands of African migrants clinging to rickety boats are trying to reach European shores every day.
They are yearning for the Promised Land.
In Europe they are told, everything will be better. You will be taken care of.

Who could resist that siren song? To reach that New Eden, migrants will pony up to $1500.00 per person to secure a place on an overcrowded, decrepit smuggling vessel.

Considering their wretched existence at home, it is understandable but the main question is how many of those people can Europe absorb without endangering itself?
Most of the European countries are already struggling to provide for their own people… how can they deal with the additional burden of clothing and feeding these new-impoverished masses?

Giving asylum to all these people would seem politically correct, but it is in fact pathetically incorrect.

What kind of life awaits those people in Europe?
Most of them are uneducated and don’t speak any other language than their own.
What do they expect to find on the continent?
A job? Fat chance.
It is already difficult for diploma-laden nationals to find a job, what prospect does a migrant have to find one?

It sounds callous, but charity begins at home.
European countries are already struggling with high unemployment and high taxes. How are they going to provide for the newcomers?
Additional taxes? Tell this to the Greeks, the Italians, the French…

And while newly arrived migrants might be relatively satisfied with their new condition, they will be invariably exploited. Their children will grow resentful and will become prime recruitment material for terrorist groups.
If you have not already noticed, most of the western jihadists are children of Muslim immigrants.

It is imperative to put an end to this kind of trafficking that benefit only smuggling criminals.

It sounds heartless, but if nothing is done, European democracies will crumble and hasten the rise of the Extreme Right (which is already flourishing).
Next, swastikas will be paraded in the street and “undesirables” will be hunted down.
Doesn’t this sound eerily familiar?

I fully realize that all the above is not piously correct, but that’s the way I see it.

Alain