"A characteristic of our present chaos is the dramatic migration of tribes. They are on the move from east to west, from south to north. Liberal tradition requires that borders must always be open to those in search of safety or even the pursuit of happiness. But now with so many millions of people on the move, even the great-hearted are becoming edgy. Norway is large enough and empty enough to take in 40 to 50 million homeless Bengalis. If the Norwegians say that, all in all, they would rather not take them in, is this to be considered racism? I think not. It is simply self-preservation, the first law of species.”
-Gore Vidal
The United States has welcomed in millions of immigrants from all corners in the last 30 years, but the majority do not have the slightest interest in embracing our way of life. This is not a blanket statement of course, but there is no denying our system of absolute tolerance for multiculturalism - no matter how contrary to our mores and behavioral expectations - has created a horrific mess.
California in particular is a tinder box and about 2" from a violent breakdown of our entire social construct. It is true that most nations begin to decay without an influx of new and eager immigrants, but our largesse has also attracted a Trojan Horse full of criminals with no intention of playing by the rules.
From this side of the pond, Europe appears to be a cautionary tale of the danger of allowing unrestricted immigration of Muslims particularly. What will you do when - having economically encouraged irresponsible breeding in the newcomers - find yourselves in the minority? If entire cities become dominated by Islamist clerics, who will REALLY be governing?
This problem is hardly confined to one particular religion, but more a function of whether immigrants embrace the opportunity to pursue happiness in relative freedom. My Grandmother warned me before she passed away that we had "let too many junky people in this country." We extended an indiscriminate hand to a bunch of Russian Armenians and they brought violence, warfare, corruption and terror to Glendale, Los Angeles and Burbank.
Those bastards came to this country with a history of gangland violence in Russia, but we had to be sooooooo tolerant and soooooo welcoming that it never occurred to anybody they would do the same here, only worse. Nobody is better at gaming the system than Russians and Eastern Europeans in particular. Survival in their homeland depends on covertly breaking the law and now you want to invite a million of them into your neighborhood?
All at once?
They have been slaughtering each other in the Balklands for hundreds of years - is the U.K. under the hallucination that everybody is going play nice just because they are in a different sandbox?
Good luck with that.