{"id":25212,"date":"2021-11-12T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25212"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:07:29","slug":"illegal-migration-across-atlantic-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/11\/12\/illegal-migration-across-atlantic-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Illegal Migration Undermines NATO And Helps Its Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recent data showed 1.7 million apprehensions<\/a> (\u201cencounters\u201d) at our southwestern border during Fiscal Year 2021, a historically record-breaking number<\/a>. And our border crisis is showing no signs of abating, nor does the Biden administration seem particularly worried about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Middle Eastern illegal migrants \u2013 invited and weaponized by the post-Soviet dictator of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko<\/a>, are rushing Poland\u2019s eastern border<\/a>. Vice President Kamala Harris described<\/a> Lukashenko\u2019s actions as \u201cvery troubling,\u201d and the European Union<\/a> \u201cis asking its executive branch, the European Commission, to create legal arrangements to allow the EU to finance border walls and other immediate measures in response to what they said is a hybrid attack from Belarus.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migrants continue to arrive<\/a> in southern Europe via the Mediterranean Sea, Bulgaria<\/a> is sending troops to its border with Turkey to deal with increasing illegal migration, and Ankara is expanding<\/a> its border wall on the Turkish-Iranian frontier. Mass illegal migration is thus a crisis that is impacting most of the countries belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and, as such, benefits the main adversaries of the United States and its Western allies, chiefly Russia and communist China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO was established in 1949,\nin the wake of the Second World War, to keep the Soviet empire from swallowing\nup Western Europe \u2013 or, as the alliance\u2019s first secretary general Lord Ismay\nstated, \u201cto keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.\u201d\nFollowing the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO remains the chief Western defense\nalliance, and an aggressively resurgent Russia under Vladimir Putin further\nhighlighted the organization\u2019s continued relevance, as does China\u2019s growing\neconomic and military power. However, the pressure of mass illegal migration \u2013\nbe it on our own southern border, in the Mediterranean basin, or on NATO\u2019s\neastern flank \u2013 is having a negative impact on both the power of NATO, and on\nmany of its constituent member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mass illegal migration \u2013 on both sides of the Atlantic \u2013 brings with it increased crime<\/a>, and, particularly in Europe in the wake of the 2015 migrant wave, also more sexual assaults<\/a>. It undermines national cohesion<\/a>, exacerbates political polarization, and increases various ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions, all while putting a significant strain on local resources, budgets, and social safety nets. Moreover, mass migration flows attract infiltration by terrorists<\/a> and other anti-Western extremists. Everyone, except perhaps open-borders ideologues, can see that these pathologies have a weakening, harmful effect on societies and countries. Simply \u201cgetting in more people\u201d is hardly a way to keep the NATO alliance and its member states internationally competitive economically or militarily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of the global\nstruggle for hearts and minds, mass illegal migration is also a lose-lose\nsituation for the West. Quite a few liberal Western leaders \u2013 for example Joe\nBiden now, or Angela Merkel in 2015 \u2013 seem to believe that tolerating massive\nlevels of unlawful border crossings, or simply opening up the gates, makes them\nand their countries look \u201chumane\u201d and wins them the so-called moral high\nground. Of course, both prospective migrants and anti-Western regimes view such\nna\u00efve policies quite differently: as signs of weakness, decadence, and gullibility.\nAnd when NATO countries decide to get tough about border security \u2013 be it\nPresident Trump, or currently the governments of Poland and Lithuania \u2013\npropagandists in places like Moscow, Beijing, or Tehran spin it as Western\n\u201ccruelty\u201d (never mind that those countries are quite harsh when policing their\nown borders!), as do many domestic leftists and liberals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one way or another,\nour geopolitical adversaries are more than happy to see mass illegal migration\nweakening and destabilizing NATO countries. There is a reason why Belarus\u2019s\npro-Russian dictator is pushing migrants to push across NATO\u2019s eastern borders\n\u2013 while threatening to cut off Europe\u2019s gas supplies as winter approaches \u2013 and\nit\u2019s not to help the migrants themselves, but to punish Europe. All of this\nmakes clear that immigration is not only a domestic policy issue, but also one\nimpacting international politics, national security, and the future of the\nWestern alliance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent data showed 1.7 million apprehensions (\u201cencounters\u201d) at our southwestern border during Fiscal Year 2021, a historically record-breaking number. And our border crisis is showing no signs of abating, nor does the Biden administration seem particularly worried about it. Meanwhile, Middle Eastern illegal migrants \u2013 invited and weaponized by the post-Soviet dictator of Belarus, Alexander<\/p>\n

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