Sidda: that's a no-win situation
Reader comment on item: West Africa - Europe's New Border
in response to reader comment: Differences between Europe and the USA

Submitted by Octavio Johanson (Italy), Mar 29, 2006 at 01:43

Thanks for the update about the American system. Now, read again Pipes's article about "Mauritania- Europe's New Border". In Europe, the common man is probably against the open-border argument. But then, you have got the elite who want open-borders.

Europe imports a lot of petrol from Muslim nations. It is not imported from Mauritania as such, but from other Muslim nations. Therefore, we are paying the price of petrol by allowing people to come here. Again, the common man knows nothing about this Oil for Immigrants programme. You can read The Economist: that's an English-speaking European paper. Well, The Economist supports immigration, because it fits their globalist, free-market agenda. In America, it is The Wall Street Journal who defends those positions. So, the European and American situations are more similar than I thought. The common man is opposed from the open-border policies of the powerful. But the common man is voiceless. I have satellite television and I saw the massive pro-immigration rallies in California. The common man is not capable of fighting against the big powers who pursue their economic agenda. In America, it is about cheap labour. In Europe, it is also about cheap labour, and our dependency on petrol. If you add the name-calling, the "racist, racist, racist", the average man will give in. This is all about power.

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