"Failure Migration" Means The Weak Do What They Can, The Strong Suffer What They Must

Article subtitle: 
Implosion of Venezuela creates refugees wave on scale of Syrian civil war
Article author: 
James Kirkpatrick
Article publisher: 
James Kirkpatrickar
Article date: 
6 July 2018
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

The victory of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) in the recent Mexican presidential election likely means an increase in immigration to the United States. AMLO has called immigration a “human right that we will defend” and will probably continue the Mexican government’s meddling in American affairs....

If Mexico continues its decline into lawlessness or goes into recession, immigration from Mexico itself will sharply increase.
 
The ironic result of all this: the worse Mexico performs, the more powerful that nation becomes. Many nominal American citizens believe their first loyalty is with Mexico. ...
 
Furthermore, Mexico and other Latin American countries continue to benefit from the endless flow of remittances from the U.S. America is literally paying welfare benefits to illegal aliens (if only for their anchor babies), some portion of which they then proceed to send home...
 
According to the World Bank, remittances constitute 11.2 percent of Guatemala’s GDP, 20.4 percent of El Salvador’s, and 18 percent of Honduras’s. Central American leaders would have to be as self-hating and suicidal as America’s to stop the migration....
 
Nor is the Failure Migration problem merely confronting the U.S. Venezuela, whose experiment in socialism was gleefully praised by Michael Moore in America and Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, has now descended into an utter nightmare... The result: a massive outflow of Venezuelan refugees on the scale of those who fled the Syrian Civil War 

... it is impossible for any country to solve its longstanding problems if it is morally obligated to absorb the costs of every other country’s failures....

This is especially true when many of the failures of those nations are inherent to the people themselves. While policy choices matter, there’s no universe where Haiti is going to outperform Hong Kong, or Niger will outperform Norway. The only way international “equality” can be reached is if unlimited mass immigration reduces every country to the lowest common denominator—which may be the whole reason why globalists support it so much....

Civilization depends upon boundaries, just as markets depend on property rights. A people or nation can only build a good life and a secure future by ensuring its fate is not captive to the failures of others....

President Trump already has the tools he needs to secure the future of this country in terms of his Supreme Court-sanctioned legal powers, the possibility of taxing remittances, and using the military to build a wall....