You raise some interesting points and they definitely deserve attention and discussion. It seems almost like the western nations have lost the will to defend their own way of life. Does it stem from the effort to be all things for all people … we know this would be an impossibility that is doomed to failure … or is it simply a lack of guts leading to appeasement.

Where are the Winston Churchhills and Teddy Roosevelts of our generation? Or are we doomed to become servants of Islam because of the capitulation of American and Western ideals by left-wing,secular-progressive liberals?

Good piece on illegal immigration. There’s a couple of comments I’d make from a British/European perspective and an international one.

First, stopping illegal immigration is a matter of political will power. True, it is difficult to police a large land border but in the UK we have no land border (aside from N. Ireland & Southern Ireland which is open) and despite this we still suffer from massive illegal immigration. They arrive hidden in trucks, in boats or via our airports! How difficult can it be catching these people?

There seems to be a collective loss of determination to confront this problem from every western democracy. I’m not a conspiracy theorist by nature but why is it that the Government’s of North America and Europe seem incapable of doing something about it?

The second point I wanted to make and which you didn’t cover concerns so called ‘legal immigration’; to be specific the category covering political asylum. I don’t know what the situation is in the US but the definition is so wide in the UK as to allow anyone who fears persecution in their home country, the right of entry. Now that’s fine if we’re talking about some persecuted human rights activist but it now includes all manner of dissenters and activists who are themselves anti democratic…who don’t believe in the very ‘western’ laws they invoke to claim asylum! We end up in the situation whereby we harbour Islamic extremists who can’t go back to say ‘Jordan’ because the Jordanian Government will put them on trial, or Saudis who think the Saudi Government isn’t Islamic enough!!
We’ve even ended up in the situation that the British Royal Navy doesn’t bother arresting pirates off Somalia because guess what: although they can be tried for pricacy after their sentence they can apply for asylum because it would be infringing their human rights to send them back to area they might feel unsafe!!

The bottom line is we have allowed in criminals and given political undesirables entry. It’s gone too far.

I’ll bet that the same is happening in the US too i.e. abuse of the asylum laws to get ‘legal’ entry.