The Economist is Britain’s chief news magazine, the Time Magazine or Newsweek of Old Blighty, and fully as establishmentarian as either. A new opinion piece, disguised as a news article, appeared yesterday, assuring those in the West who might have been concerned about wholesale immigration not to worry, All is well. In fact, if you look at it the right way, all is returning to open-borders normalcy, where all the world’s excess is welcome once again.
Titled “A new wave of mass migration has begun: What does it mean for rich-world economies?” the article relates how, back in the bad old days of 2016–the time of Trump’s election and Brexit–“it seemed as if many wealthy countries had turned decisively against mass migration.” Then came Covid and those rich countries actually closed their borders (sort of), bringing the marvelous infusion of new, third-world blood to a near halt. Dark days indeed.
But finally the virus ended, the border restrictions were loosened, and a steady, even torrential, influx resumed. O happy day, at least for the elites who produce and read The Economist.
The article shares the good news that now, even in out-of-the-way places like Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador province, the New Wave of in-migration has risen to a level 20 times the pre-Covid level. The Economist gushes:
St John’s, the [province] capital, once fairly homogeneous, feels more like Toronto every time you visit. Heart’s Delight, a small rural village, now has a Ukrainian bakery, Borsch. The provincial government is setting up an office in Bangalore to help recruit nurses.
In addition to Ukrainians, “Indians and Nigerians also appear to be on the move in large numbers.” Many, we are told, speak English and already have family connections in the West. All the Cool Kids in all the Western governments are falling all over themselves issuing welcomes to the global excess. Canada hopes to admit 1.5 million new residents in by 2025. And Germany has somehow persuaded India to graciously share a few million of its surplus.
After all, writes The Economist, “Economies that welcome lots of migrants tend to benefit in the long run. Just look at America.”
Oh yeah, look here. We’re going great guns. Essentially bankrupt already, we’re admitting millions of unskilled migrants who by universal agreement within a few years are going to have no chance of earning their own living in a rapidly automating society that will have no earthly need for them. Except as consumers, of course. So get out your pocketbooks, citizens, it’s time to pay the welfare bill for those millions that your insane government is furiously importing. And don’t dare think of voting your way out of this mess. Those newly minted third-world voters will put the kibosh on that, you betcha.
For more, see The Economist.