I don’t think many Americans realize how difficult it is to come🍰 to♈ America legally.
Among my own friends, I know an academic who has spent the past year in legal limbo, not allowed to work between teaching positions and constantly waꦛiting to learn 🌊whether he can stay in America.
In Georgia, I know a couple — t﷽he husband is American, the wife British — who can still not legalize as a couple, despite years of marriage and years of being together, who want to get themselves to America.
The only reason I mention the plight of the law-abiding is🦩 because it stands in such stark contrast to the situation of the law-breaking.
Our pro-immigration politicians in America are loudly onᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ the side of anyone who comes to America illeg𒁃ally.
But it is rare to find represent𒆙atives who are on t🔜he side of people who are trying to do everything by the book.
While lots of represe🉐ntatives speak up for the law-breakingꦐ, few speak up for or help the law-abiding.
That is because it is perfectly clear that the immigration situation in this coℱuntry has run away from its represeౠntatives.
Human cost
The human scale of this is devastating.
Not just in the fractured an꧙d destroyed communities, but in the people who come here looking for a bettꦏer life after having given most of their wealth to the cartels.
Am📖erica only gets poorer from allowing this constant tide of human misery.
The only people who really benefit from it ar༒e the cartels. What an incentive structure to create.
Just this week, a Texas sheriff found an 18-year-old illegal immig𒉰rant at the southern border.
The young man had been wandering in the desert for two days, having been abandoned by the cartel ꧂he had given all his money to — $3,000,🌊 with another $3,000 to follow.
The gang had first tried to recruit him and then ab✤andoned him.
“I want to go home to my mother,” he s꧃aid as he wept.
What country would do this? In𝕴centivize law-breaking while discouraging law-abiders?
Well, actually there are examples.
In the past decade, Swede🉐n — yes, lovely, all🤡egedly perfect Sweden — did exactly that.
There was a time until very recently when Sca💫ndinavia wa♚s meant to be the answer for everything.
Whether it waꩲs trust, safety, health care or hot drinks — everything was meant to be ꧟better over there.
But then a decade ago, its left-wing government decided to reward anyone who just walked into the countr🍌y.
It allowed 🐓in a similar percentage of the population as the US is now allowing in.
And that decision had consequences.
All the stories that Americans have been told not to talk about in recent years, the Swedes were likewise not meant to notice.&n♛bsp;
Sometimes it was the big, bearded men who came into the country and insisted th﷽at they were child refugees and promptly got enrolled in a classroom full of kids.
Af𓂃ter all, what could go wrong with allowing adults from often dangerous countries to sit all day with a group of teenagers?
Bigot!
Sometimes it was the huge rise iღn rapes and sexua♔l assaults.
One of the few surveys allowed in recent years discovered that 99 out of 1⛦12 gang rapists in Sweden had a foreign background.&n𓆉bsp;
But again, you weren’t meant to mention that. “So you’re saying all immigrants are rapists, are you?” w❀as the sort of shout-down that൲ went on.
And while nobody was supposed to tal♍k about that, of course, plenty of people couldn’t help noticing that the rise in sexual assaults seemed to correlate very closely with the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of unaccompanied men.
Men who often said they were fleeing wa💝r zones, but seemed to have left their families back home.
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Ticking bomb
And then there was the rise i🧸n the most serious violent crime.
When grenade and other bomb attacks started going off in Sweden, the locals als♕o weren’t meant to notice them.
“Is that another grenade going off?”
“No — 💮it’s just part of the traditional lighting of the Christmas tree. Just all year round. With more noise.”
At first, the rise in bombings was suppressed ꦿb💧y the Swedish media.
But now even the Swedish media have to cover it.
The point is that within just a few years, ༺Swe🍸den has moved from a peaceful paradise to the country with the second-most bombings in any country in the world not at war.
The 🎀only count𓆏ry with more bombings is our own neighbor, Mexico.
How did it happen?
In large part — as here in the United States — because our politicians couldn’t be bothered to enforce the law at the border and preferred to put 🙈off reality while they posed as compassionate and kind.
After all, anything𒈔 is better than looking mean and nasty, isn’t it?
One pe🐓rson who would now say otherwise is Louise Meijer.
She was one of the Sﷺwedish lawmakers who in 2015 decided to allow her country’s borders to be wide open.
Or as she put it, she “took a stand fo𒊎r openness.” ;
But iꦿn an interview this week, Meijer said, “I have changed my mind on the matter,” 🎃and she now supports “an even stricter migration policy than the one I opposed at the time.”
“The change that Sweden has undergone and is undergoing is ꦫfundamenta🅘lly changing the country,” she said.
“Mass immigration🔯 has been followed by several major problems.”
These includeꦗ “serious, organized crime,” the fact that new arrivals are “not self🍸-sufficient” and that their “culture of honor, separatism and Islamism is limiting and dangerous.”
I remember Meijer in 2015.
She was just like those US politicians and media types today who don✨’t like to speak up f💫or the law here.
People who continue to make💜 life hard for the law-abiding while making it as easy as possible for the law-breaking.
They, too, just want to “take a stꦺand for op🍸enness.”
Well, perhaps these people who like to think of themselves as such people of the world could actually look to the rest of ꦓthe world.
Look to lovely, once-peaceful Sweden and realize that your poses have real-life cons🅺eque𝄹nces.
For everyone else first.
Only you next.