Saturday, August 30, 2025

Europe in the Balance? | RealClearPolitics

Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant -- often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime -- surfaces. - Victor Davis Hanson

Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being "racists" or "xenophobes."
Until recently, that is.
  • Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party's open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants who arrive illegally and without authentic "political refugee" status.
  • Greek officials, also swamped by illegal immigration, now cite President Donald Trump's secure border policies as new models for their own...
Yet many arrivals seem angrier at their newfound liberal hosts than at the dictatorships they fled back home...

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