Isolationist America and ineffective U.N. are the reasons for global illegal immigration

The recent discovery of 71 decomposed bodies of Syrian refugees in the back of a truck in Austria will no doubt result in a lot of recrimination by European governments in a lame attempt to lay blame at someone else’s doorstep – probably the smugglers who led these people to their death.

In my opinion, the world is guilty of this and other atrocities, but you will NEVER hear the “global leadership” take responsibility for this illegal global shift in populations, whether it is Mexico, Africa, the Mideast or Europe. You have to ask yourself, why wasn’t this a major problem in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or 1990s? I contend it is a combination of events and public policy that failed.

The failure of the U.N. and global world powers to intervene in places like Africa, where the U.N. saw atrocities in Uganda, Somalia and other areas grow uncontrollably – started the first great wave of illegal immigrants in a huge population shift northward to Europe.  The formation of the European Union, and the open border policy that enabled an influx of illegal immigrants  to spread across Europe assisted this illegal immigration across Europe.

The failure of a corrupt Mexican government to parlay it’s significant natural resources into transforming the country led to a lawless society where the population had little hope and saw the USA their one opportunity to live a decent life. The NAFTA free trade agreements only served to enrich a small group within Mexico, and failed to lift the general population. The failure of the USA (under both Republicans and Democrats) to secure our borders has led to an incredible influx of illegal immigrants that are changing the landscape of American society, and costing U.S taxpayer billions of dollars and driving up crime statistics in every state in the USA.

The Mideast has seen a general breakdown of governments in Syria, Lebanon and other areas of conflict and the populations there are on the move just about everywhere in the world – even suffocated in the back of a truck in Austria.

American can’t fix the world, but we also can’t refrain from the leadership void that is a result of our current isolationist  policy. The U.N. cannot continue to be a forum for hot air that obsesses with the Palestinian issue or Israel, while the rest of the world is burning. Public policy is usually well intended, but sometimes it is used to advance an ideology rather than the welfare of the general public.

I hope that the death of these 71 Syrian illegal instigate a lot of soul searching on the part of our global institutions. Unfortunately, I don’t have much confidence that the lesson will be learned.