You have to be careful with a country. Even a nation as vast in size and huge in population as the United States cannot be endlessly experimented upon. You cannot just leave borders open, or allow in large numbers of people with totally different value systems from your own.
You have to be careful with a country. Even a nation as vast in size and huge in population as the United States cannot be endlessly experimented upon. You cannot just leave borders open, or allow in large numbers of people with totally different value systems from your own.
That is the mistake many European countries have committed in recent years. They have opened their homes up to people from almost every part of the world where there is civil strife, war or just a lower standard of living.
The results can be seen everywhere. It is the reason why a country like Sweden — that used to be such a placid, decent place — has become one of the most violent countries in the world not actually at war. Grenade attacks, gang-warfare: these things were recently alien to Sweden. Not anymore.
It is the same here in the United States — though here the effects are more dispersed, so the problem can be covered up for longer.
But two things have happened in the past week that ought to allow any American reflect on how carefully we should treat the future of this country.
The first is the discovery — reported first in City Journal — of vast amounts of welfare and charitable fraud being carried out by the Somali residents of Minnesota.
Somalia has been in a state of war and collapse for more than three decades. As a result many Western countries — including America — were persuaded to give asylum to large numbers of Somalis.
But not everybody changes their behavior and experience just because they fly from one country to another. Violence and corruption are rife in Somalia, and so large numbers of Somalis bring these traditions with them. Speak to politicians in Europe and you will be hard-pushed to find anyone who thinks their own countries have benefited from importing large numbers of people from warring Somalia.
