The Myth of Immigration Control

Back in October, the former Aussie PM urged Europe to take his country's example of closing its borders. The Aussies famously now export their migrants to countries like Cambodia for processing in 'centres'.

Today reports of riots, suspicious deaths and fires are filtering back on their 'centres', the shining examples

Around three hundred years ago began one of the biggest movement of peoples the world has ever known.

In the wake of the ruin of the Napoleonic wars of Europe; people of European ancestry headed to the 'New World'. Within a few years after the end of the bloody Great War ( World War One) some SIXTY MILLION Europeans had migrated to the America's, Oceania and Africa.

Today people of white European ancestry make up over 20 million in Australia alone, hundreds of millions are scattered across America, Canada, Brazil, South Africa and beyond.

It is interesting the largest rise in migration in recent times ( tiny compared to the movements described above) has been to the chief exporter of people in earlier centuries, Europe.

Across Europe goverments are acting tough, putting up wires and talking up getting tough on immigration. But is such a policy ever possible?

Between 1815 and 1920, Europe witnessed some of its most bloody conflicts, and this was all before the rise of Hitler and World War Two. Over a million European civilians from the Napoleonic wars alone.

Currently the surge in migrants, even on 2013 figures, show Syria is inflating the issue and Syria is in the midst of a bloody war.

Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan

Just as Europeans fled war and want, in the 21st century we are witnesses to a very old cycle.  Talk of tough on immigration is a myth and we should not allow ourselves to believe the only cure for migration is getting tough on borders and other such nonsense, its fighting for peace and stability in the world at large.

As long as we destroy, people will come.