The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and north Africa.
With a population of around 6,000, beautiful beaches, bars and restaurants it should be the perfect island get-away.
But today it has become one of the easiest landing points for people from Africa to make it into Europe. Yet she is also hampered. One of her predecessors, Matteo Salvini, tried to restrict boats from landing while he was in charge of immigration policy. His reward? He has spent recent years being dragged through the courts in Italy for his refusal to let the illegal boats land.Why do I relate all this about a tiny island on a far-away continent? Because what is happening in Italy is what is happening in the United States and is a vision of our own future.
And so they — and a whole class of politicians — set off a system which incentivized law-breaking. They actually made it not just possible but desirable to break into America. Every developed world country which has a border or near-border with the developing world is going to be overwhelmed in this century. Movement across countries and continents has never been easier, or cheaper.
America of course has its own neighbors, and the argument goes that they are less culturally different than Africans are to Europeans. And so perhaps the American experiment can work.Because the two mistakes that our politicians make are the same mistakes that Europe’s politicians make. They vastly underestimate the number of people who want to come here. And they vastly overestimate our ability to integrate the people who come or make them benefit this country.
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