Unsecured Western Borders Welcome Mass Third World Migration

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas —Rio Grande City Border Patrol Agents apprehended 102 undocumented aliens. Immigrants apprehended by Rio Grande City Agents. Photo provided by: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Pat Buchanan asks at The American Conservative, what the causes of the current crises in Western democracies could be. Lack of assimilation of third world immigrants, the demographic challenges posed by a shrinking native population, and globalization feature in his analysis. He writes (abridged):

What are the underlying causes of these (Western) 21st-century crises of Western democracies?

Certainly, globalization, with its creation of ties among transnational elites at the expense of nation-states and their indigenous peoples is one. Capitals — Washington, London, Paris, Berlin — seem ever more distant from the countries they rule.

Then there is demography. The native-born of almost all Western nations are aging, shrinking and dying. Death rates exceed birth rates. While peoples of the West are living longer, they are producing fewer children to replace them.

At the same time, Western elites have welcomed foreign workers and left borders unsecured against mass migration. And the people coming in, almost all now from the Third World, are not assimilating as the children of 19th- and 20th-century European immigrants to the USA had largely done by 1960.

A consequence and related cause is the rise of tribalism, or ethno-nationalism, the search for identity and community with one’s own. Loyalties to family, tribe, neighborhood, culture and country appear paramount, rising above intellectual and political alignments.