Just remember, regardless of what anyone is saying about what is happening in the EU, open borders are good...... really..... quit laughing.
You really should at least try to gain perspective. European countries share borders with other countries that have or are going through civil wars. The reason MENA refugees are finding their way up there is that they simply have to walk. And barring gunning them down in the streets or at the borders, Europe is screwed having to deal with the problem. But this thread, like all the rest about European immigration issues, is all about the United States. This is where a clearer perspective would benefit.
Our immigrants come from Mexico and wish to pick our tomatoes, put up drywall, or start a lawn service. And unlike those who cross the Mediterranean into Europe, our Caribbean immigrants, who build rafts to float to Florida, do not come from an environment of mass conflict. But like those who cross the Mediterranean or walk across a border in Europe, they are seeking an escape from misery and arrive at socioeconomic opportunity. Our immigrants are not amassed together into living conditions that push an agenda of survival or encourage criminal activity as an answer to a host country's inadequate treatment. In fact, according to the studies, crime in immigrant neighborhoods tend to be very low because they tend to band together and hold each other accountable. And because Muslims are free to wear their traditional clothing, or build a mosque, or attend university, the United States does not provide Islamists a recruitment pool to exploit.
Europe's problems are Europe's problems because of Europe's geographic environment and government policies. Not simply because "open borders." The vast majority of all of France's problems, when it comes to Islamist terrorism, has come right out of the ghettos where they were born as Frenchmen. And hand grenades in Denmark or Sweden is a product of the black market. Why do you think, after spending decades trying to bring down the Soviet Union, we rushed to keep Russia together after the Cold War? That arsenal began to flood countries throughout Europe and Africa. The weapons of Bosnia, absent destruction, was going to go somewhere.
But Europe is not the U.S. We do not have "open" borders like what is seen in the EU. Europe's history of this involves an understanding that man-made borders greatly helped to encourage two World Wars and created great tension during the Cold War. Their history is not ours. We need to stop pretending that it is and we definitely need to stop wanting to mimic them when it comes to how to treat immigrants. If we want to draw out the worst in people, we only need to treat them like ****.
What I just wrote, off the top of my head cuz I'm so damn smart, is about perspective and context.
