A fine difference

Submitted by Octavio (Italy), Jan 3, 2007 at 18:52

Mass immigration is different from anything America, or Europe, have experienced before. If you check out the numbers, if you compare the phenomenon in the 1960s to the one of 2007, you will see that the numbers have gone up considerably. Therefore, there is a fine difference to be made between immigration and MASS immigration.

One million people entered Europe and about the same number enetered America in 2006. I wonder what the figures were for 1966 or 1956. I am sure it was not one million. Another fine difference for the West is the one between European and non-European immigration. If one million European-Americans, or Australians came to Europe, there would certainly be some initial problems, but they would be solved quite soon. I regret to say that MASS immigration from non-European countries is a bigger problem. Millions of Arabs and Africans are more difficult to integrate than European immigrants. But, the fact that is MASS immigration is bad enough. The number of people entering Europe and America in 2007 should be one-tenth of the number who came in 2006.

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