If European leaders wanted to stop illegal migration they would, and they would immediately, and could do it without looking cruel and inhumane. They could do something as simple as turn boats back, run campaigns like Australia does targeted at the source countries letting them know Europe will not accept them. They could build detention camps on small islands in the Mediterranean to process migrants and send them back.
European leaders however have been looking at America even with its myriad of social problems with an envious eye. Reforms are coming to Europe but not how nationalists want or imagine. Europe, especially the south is slowly turning into the Americas, and the leaders tacitly approve this. Why? Because they love cheap labour but can't actually admit it or there'll be backlash.
It's no coincidence that southern rural Italy today looks uncannily like 1930s rural deep south. White land owners, with hundreds of thousands (and soon millions) black labourers who are starting make up massive parts of the rural population picking fruits, vegetables, and make up almost all farm hands. In many ways, the migrants of today are the union busters Europe's business community has wanted since after WW2. They'll work for cheap, live in abhorrent conditions, and won't say a word about treatment. This is a borderline voluntary slave trade. As many boats are hitting southern Spain and Italy as ships carrying human cargo were Charlestown in the 1700s. Europe's leaders (and and wealthy land owners) know very well what's going on, but they approve, while pretending this is a disaster. Otherwise there wouldn't be teams of health workers, Coast guards, rescue teams and priests intercepting boats, off loading the migrants, and letting them into Europe.
The effects of this aren't going to be the rise of nazism, or hardcore nationalism like so many want, but instead it will be the rise of men Sarkozy and Nigel Farage, who will pay lip service to the nationalists while they will simply strip the European social welfare state, which will be much easier when they can use the visibly different immigrants as the pawns necessary to do this. This will play out for a century if not longer. The changes will be incremental. Europe, especially the south will look like contemporary Brazil.
That's just how she goes sometimes.
European leaders however have been looking at America even with its myriad of social problems with an envious eye. Reforms are coming to Europe but not how nationalists want or imagine. Europe, especially the south is slowly turning into the Americas, and the leaders tacitly approve this. Why? Because they love cheap labour but can't actually admit it or there'll be backlash.
It's no coincidence that southern rural Italy today looks uncannily like 1930s rural deep south. White land owners, with hundreds of thousands (and soon millions) black labourers who are starting make up massive parts of the rural population picking fruits, vegetables, and make up almost all farm hands. In many ways, the migrants of today are the union busters Europe's business community has wanted since after WW2. They'll work for cheap, live in abhorrent conditions, and won't say a word about treatment. This is a borderline voluntary slave trade. As many boats are hitting southern Spain and Italy as ships carrying human cargo were Charlestown in the 1700s. Europe's leaders (and and wealthy land owners) know very well what's going on, but they approve, while pretending this is a disaster. Otherwise there wouldn't be teams of health workers, Coast guards, rescue teams and priests intercepting boats, off loading the migrants, and letting them into Europe.
The effects of this aren't going to be the rise of nazism, or hardcore nationalism like so many want, but instead it will be the rise of men Sarkozy and Nigel Farage, who will pay lip service to the nationalists while they will simply strip the European social welfare state, which will be much easier when they can use the visibly different immigrants as the pawns necessary to do this. This will play out for a century if not longer. The changes will be incremental. Europe, especially the south will look like contemporary Brazil.
That's just how she goes sometimes.