Some borders are better controlled than others. Ever attempt to enter or exit a country run by a dictatorship? Not as simple as the free for all that separates Mexico from the United States. Gaddafi knows with the stroke of a pen that he can hermitically seal his borders. So does the EU. Governor Brewer, on the other hand, is at the mercy of a federal agency that clearly has done its job with all the ineptness of a fox guarding the hen house.
Perhaps chief among the differences between Libya and Arizona is that while one is hoping to cash in on illegal immigration, the other is looking to cash out of what has become an alien lottery.
But, getting back to the European Union, it is conceivable that certain countries within the continent are having second thoughts about the immigration policies and experiments undertaken in the past decade. Some member countries are paralyzed with fear of a violent backlash, unwilling to make difficult decisions after flooding their citizenry with identifiable minority groups who now act as a magnet for their brethren.
It is funny how history repeats itself. When the European colonists of yore sought to enrich themselves at the expense of other sovereign nations and indigenous peoples, no thought was given to the disruption of the invaded cultures or their identity, nor were any of the conquered peoples afforded any of the rights enjoyed by well armed military and settlers that plundered with impunity. Karma is such a b*tch.
And that's my take.
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