The real reason for open door immigration
[QUOTE=Australiasucks]Its a lot more complicated than just the UN pushing these countries to spur migration. Most European nations are aging, and one of the ideas they had was to bring in more immigrants, many of these migrants from the Middle East do not want to integrate into mainstream European society and hence you get problems.[/QUOTE]
This is equally true of Canada, don't know about the US.
Government deliberately opened the floodgates of immigration hoping that the newcomers would fund the pensions and government services of our aging, stagnant population. This instead of fixing the fundamental problem by living within our means.
The other argument was we needed immigrants to grow the population (again - why? why not recalibrate our spending model to make a stable or declining population sustainable?) but the big joke is that most immigrant groups, once they get established here, catch the "causian disease" and experience a decline in birthrate. Maybe muslims are an exception, but many immigrant groups reduce reproduction for the same reasons westerners do.
So government policy (driven by lack of foresight) has dramatically changed the ethnic and cultural composition of many countries without really getting the economic or demographic benefits they banked on.
Australian politics - just for a moment?
Australiasucks, I've got a question.
Last week, [i]The Economist[/i] had an article about the Australian elections. They refered to Julia Gillard's unseating of Kevin Rudd as Labor leader (and Prime Minister) as "the first act in a soap opera that has since bedevilled Labor's campaign against the conservative Liberal-National opposition."
How is it the the "Liberal Party" in Australia could take part in a "conservative coalition"? And I thought the USA's "Republicans vs. Democrats" were f***ed up ....