Third world migrant crisis in the US is actually worse than it is in Europe

 by Olivia Murray

Listen, I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve been hyperfocused on the migration problem consuming Europe, writing on it fairly frequently. 

When you see what Western gems like Paris, London, Berlin, Brussels, and Edinburgh have become, it’s easy. The crime rates are surging, from vandalism to rape and murder, infamous and unforgettable images make it into our news feeds—like the African migrant cooking his breakfast on a Western war memorial or the freaky East African-looking guy grinning from his taxpayer-paid flat balcony after going on a stabbing spree—and Arab delinquents are caught destroying historic walls that have been standing for centuries.

And while we do have our own examples of the migration problem in the U.S., like Laken Riley’s murder and the Somali fraud scandal, they’re relatively rare, or framed in the media as being small scale occurrences—tempting us to think it’s worse in Europe than here. But I think we’re being extremely naive, living in “the white,” fat, dumb, and (relatively) happy.

I first realized that things are actually more dire here than they are in Europe when I went to the U.K. a couple of months back. In the small towns, things still felt and looked distinctly English, Irish, and Scottish (respectively). Small towns in the U.S., even in places like Alabama where I live? Athens, where my kids go to school, is full of Haitians, I’ve seen gaggles of Islamic women covered from head-to-toe in their burkas in Moulton where I go to buy local farm goods, and I refuse to go to Walmart anymore after being jostled down the aisles by diminutive Central Americans one too many times, with not an English-speaking customer to be found. (I was the only American in a sea of foreigners, literally, in my own home country.)

When I visited Blackpool? Only white English people. I didn’t see a single migrant.

When I visited Inverness, Dún Laoghaire, Wrea Green, Dingwall, and Fort Augustus? All Anglos, with a few Asians working the sushi restaurant at which we dined. Again, not a single African or Arab third-worlder.

The big cities? When I went to Dublin, I saw a whopping two Muslims, women with hijabs, participating in the St. Paddy’s Day celebrations, speaking English, and decently Westernized. Not ideal, but at least they know the language, having probably been born there. (I wrote on my trip to Ireland for the AT newsletter, so here’s a quick AT subscription plug for access to exclusive essays that won’t appear on the site.)

Okay, that’s all anecdotal you might say, and fair enough—but let’s look at some numbers.

14.1% of the EU’s population in 2024 reportedly consisted of foreign-born individuals. In Germany, where the numbers are notoriously bad, the overall migrant population is around 20%.

The U.S.? We have a population of roughly 342 million—and around 100 million are foreigners who need to be deported/repatriated:

That’s a whopping 30% of our population being non-Americans, whether they have “legal” status or not.

Consider that the 10-12 million number was what they said…back in the 1970s:

Also consider that since Hart-Celler, which eliminated the prioritization of immigrants from Western nations to instead permit all the net negative individuals from the darkest corners of the globe, some 60 million “immigrants” have flooded into the U.S.—then they reproduced like rabbits. Europe, just by virtue of being small and with limited room for growth, has less migrants. The U.S., with tons of space and a massive economy, is bearing the brunt.

While we’re all distracted with the European problem, our nation sinks and drowns.

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