But yeah. Flooding is not the adjective I would use with our current immigration situation.
Actually. Russia did push immigrants over the border as a part of their hybrid warfare. We had to take them, since international laws etc. we changed the legislation to solve the situation.
Finland’s parliament passed a law on Friday granting border guards the power to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia, after more than 1,300 people arrived in the country, forcing Helsinki to close its border.
Finland has accused neighbouring Russia of weaponising migration by encouraging scores of migrants from countries such as Syria and Somalia to cross the border, an assertion the Kremlin denies.
If 1,300 refugees causes a crisis that needs a new law to solve it, we’re hardly flooded.
And the immigrants I know (some of them I would call friends) are all very well integrated.
Mediterranean has bigger issues. They’re very close to Middle East and Africa, and Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal (@darnell_becker you’re Portugese?) have a lot of immigrants. Illegal and legal.
True, when Nationalist parties get enough traction they do tend to cause a small shift in other center-right parties. How much actual policy is actually legislated/enforced is up to debate.
France, the UK, Germany, Belgium, etc have it waaaay worse. Apparently, our benefits aren’t enough to provide them with the lavish lifestyle that they are acustomed to in Morocco or Bangladesh.
Our biggest immigrant population right now is Brazilian. Less Christmas market attacks, more home wrecking (I don’t know if you’re familiar with Brazilian women, but that’s wassup).
Well, if voter ID passes, abolishing it would extremely unlikely. Many blue states would flip red, along with MANY congressional districts. Maine certainly would. Voter ID itself is like a 70 - 80 percent approval issue across both parties.
In my opinion, that would simply be the death of the Democratic Socialist version of the Democratic party. It’s just not going to win without noncitizen voting, nonresident voting (think college students voting in local elections), and a good voter ID law would eliminate mass mail in ballots and leave us with an established absentee and overseas voting system that’s much more difficult to rig than simply mailing out ballots to every registered voter. Unrigged elections mean any opposition parties would need policies that have broad appeal, meaning a total rebrand from transgender grooming in public schools, open borders, insecure elections, etc. Something similar to the 90’s Democrats would probably emerge.
If voter ID doesn’t get passed, it’s entirely possible that Dems retake both house and senate, possibly the presidency, too. Getting all three would likely mean game over for the republic and game on for the brave new world of nationwide Democratic Socialism.
Taking a look at Virginia gives us a good insight into how quickly they move when they get full control at the state level. It’s the same thing they did in Maine, where they swiftly enact a variety of policies that first and foremost secure power, then extract wealth to line their pockets, keep their base happy, and also fund the political activism machine.
Toss in making Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. states, then a permanent supermajority is likely no matter how hard people try to vote themselves out of it. It won’t matter when you have banana republic elections.
I mean, mass rape events by muslims, for one.
Unfettered immigration from countries with people that are ideologically opposed to your very way of living.
I wasnt comparing the entirety of US problems to EU problems; I was speaking specifically of the government sponsored cucking of men in your countries to everyone of a darker skin tone and non-christian religion. Where’s the outrage? Why are y’all so passive about it?
I’m sure there’s some fine places abroad, but aside from seeing my family’s “old country” I have no desire to go anywhere in Europe. At what point does Europe and the US deal with the immigration problem? Does it have to get bad to the point the natives get violent? Have European countries even paused or decreased the amount of immigrants they’re allowing in?
Seriously, why do all that fighting to kick them out and drive them back for 1000 years, then just open the doors up and let them walk in? The Irish seemed like they were getting activated a few months ago, but I haven’t heard much lately.
Yes. At least Germany, Finland, Poland, Baltics, Netherlands, France, Italy and Greece have. Probably other places too.
There’s outrage for sure, or at least people aren’t passive. For several countries the situation was way more “uncontrolled” 10 years ago.
Do we go on the streets and shoot people? No. And I assume most US citizens won’t either. But I don’t see Europeans passive.
Immigrants increasing crimes is no secret. These days Finland deports people who don’t have citizenship and they do nasty stuff. Also, there’s income requirements to stay in the country. They’re also tightening ways to get citizenship.
It’s fine. It is quite normal people want to be somewhere familiar. I like USA, I’ve been in California twice, but I would not to move there to live even if asked.
Same with Europe. I’ve travelled in several European countries (like most Europeans have) and I like to spend time in places like Poland or France, but I have no desire to live in either of these countries.
I guess you spoke only about travelling to places though, and there I need to disagree. I like to see the world first hand. Often it changes your perspective about places quite a lot.
If you think Europe would be terrible or dangerous, I can assure you, US is at least as dangerous place for travellers. Even more, most likely.
If you’re just unintrested, that’s fine. We all have different ambitions.
The glorious thing about the US is if someone comes at me with a machete, I can shoot him in the face.
The way I see it, I could travel within the boundaries of the US the rest of my life and never run out of places to experience. We’ve got it all. Just to visit home I drive the equivalent of Paris to Warsaw and back.
Poland would be cool, and the Vatican. But I have no plans or desire to actually go (or money). My idea of fun travel is camp in the Adirondacks or kill snow geese in the Dakotas.
I’ve always wanted to do a roadtrip over USA. Maybe some day. I specifically enjoy nature and seeing different environments. And when I was in Cal, we did hike in the mountains.
USA is vast. And the environmental variation is as great as in Europe.
@SepCalla is a Finn, I reckon immigration there is less of an issue there than in the US.
Sweden on the other hand went from one of the safest, most peaceful countries, calling the Danes racists for not taking immigrants, to a crime ridden hell hole infested with no-go zones, with schools taking pork out of their meals cause it’s offensive or something.
I think after enough years have gone by some people just normalize the situation. Teenagers and young adults in Sweden likely have no concept of what their country used to be.
I know some older Swedes and they moved here precisely because of what their country turned into. And the weather, I guess.
The irony here is that people who actually fled their shithole countries for legitimate reasons (like being gay or non muslim) don’t feel safe in Sweden anymore because what they were trying to escape also came along. They let “humanitarian reasons” get in the way of a thorough screening process.
Sweden did really fuck up. The organized gangs from there are spreading here too. We are deporting gang members when we can, but justice is not always swift.
Ukrainian refugees have mixed the situation a lot, but I still recon Sweden has the largest immigrant population per capita in Europe.
There’s a pre war map of immigrant population per country (the flag means the nationality of the largest immigrant group in each country).
