Immigration to the United States is different from immigration to European countries

Submitted by Anon (Israel), Dec 10, 2017 at 22:46

Europe does not need to accept large number of immigrants from outside Europe. It's already taken in far too many. The idea that European countries can and must keep on taking in millions upon millions of immigrants makes no sense and would lead to a terrible backlash.

At the end of the day these countries host indigenous populations, which are, in fact nations, just as ethnic Kurds feel they're part of a nation. Tt is these populations' ancestral land and it hardly makes sense for them to become ethnic minorities in their own historical homes.

It is particularly bizarre given that they were not taking in stateless peoples who have no land to live in but rather have been accepting astronomical numbers of people who actually have countries of their own.

As for Arabs, there is actually something known as the "Arab world" in which they can live, not merely one country but many. Immigration is natural but the numbers need to be reasonable and the circumstances in which large numbers from outside enter must also make sense. Indeed, we saw the English felt that even immigration from Poland (inside Europe, of course) was excessive, because the numbers were vast and there weren't any extreme circumstances to justify it.

The sad thing is that because unreasonable numbers have entered, this is bound to make even reasonable circumstances seem unacceptable if it would mean many more would come. An excessive openness leads to being excessively closed. The sooner the numbers are minimised, the better.

America (and also Canada, Australia, and so on) are different in that they're natural targets of immigration and it is the ancestral home of those termed Native Americans, who are already a tiny minority. This means it's easier for people to come in from outside the United States to blend in and fit in, simply because it isn't a particular ethnic group's historical land. For example, Poles in America can feel comfortable being a minority there in a way they can't be comfortable with becoming a minority in Poland.

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