Europe cannot copy the American, Canadian, and Australian immigration experience because their nations are not economically free enough to offer the necessary opportunity. The Moroccans, Turks, and whatnot find more opportunity in Europe than in their own sorry lands but their chances of flourishing there are asymptotically close to zero.

They remain confined to menial jobs and grow increasingly resentful of a thoroughly entrenched elite who have long-since walled off any opportunity to rise from below.

The problem does not affect only immigrants to Europe; there is nearly a two-year waiting list of well-educated French people waiting for the chance to apply for a resident visa in the USA.

Look around. The better-skilled immigrants from Africa and elsewhere are coming to Canada and the US every chance they get. Enjoy this advertisement for Tim Horton’s coffee shops. It’s quite true to the modern Canadian immigrant experience.

And it can wind up Muslim.

The fact that places like New Zealand (where I live) is an immigrant society does not mean that it is easier to integrate people who do not want to be integrated. We have not faced the situation where a high proportion of any migrant group wants to change the basic tenets of the rest of society to suit them. And neither have Australia. In this Europe with its high Muslim migration, is faced with an issue that neither of these countries face to any great extent.

There is a simple solution - We have more children! Europe cannot copy the states mention by Bart Hall because they are “new” countries, built on immigration. Not so in Europe, to copy the US, Canada and Australia would effectively mean abandoning our historical, cultural and ethnic identities.

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Don’t be silly. The Austro-Hungarian empire more than a century ago enjoyed remarkable economic and other freedoms that would be enviable in our time. As long as you didn’t diss the Emperor, foment a revolt, or try to mess around in foreign affairs you were generally free to go and do as you wished.

Numerous German immigrants came to Hungary in the 18th and 19th centuries for economic opportunity and freedom from their local princelings. Italians and Slavs moved there for the largely the same reasons, as did a non-trivial number of Romanians. They came, they prospered, and they assimilated.

Much of Europe once had something rather like what we now have. They, however, LOST it because they made the devastating mistake of paying attention to a bunch of socialist and egalitarian eggheads who claimed to have a better way.

There they have helped fuel economic booms, reinvigorated the continent’s declining birthrate, and transformed cities from Madrid to Stockholm

It’s hypocritical comments like this why I no longer subscribe to Newsweek. This same author would probably have been an advocate of Zero Population Growth in the 1960’s that Europeans embraced.

Don’t blame the immigrants for Europe’s slow self-genocide. Europe bought the Planned Parenthood anti-life agenda and ignored the much villified Pope Paul VI’s prophecy (Humanae Vitae encyclical) about the dangers of the West and Christianity ceasing to be pro-life.
    Leave it to Newsweek to go hysterical over any Western countries trying to protect their culture. The things listed in the article as horrendous trampling on Moslems are completely small potatos compared to the horrors regularly visited on Christians in the Moslem world—rarely covered here in the media.

#7. deaconjohn25,

Leave it to Newsweek to go hysterical over any Western countries trying to protect their culture.

Agreed, the following comment from Newsweek illustrates your point.

In the last few months, a dark tribalism has swept Europe

It used to be called Nationalism.

Maybe we should look at immigration more as an opportunity than as a threat.  Instead of having to go out into the world to make disciples the world is coming to us.