Could It Happen Here?

Posts like this are why I consider The Fat Guy to be one of the Great Undiscovered Blogs in America:

Austin is Burning!

Oh, wait…that’s Paris.

Let me just point out for those who might need some pointing out - America has an immigration problem with foreigners who come here to work at unskilled labor for low wages, just like the currently-rioting Muslims in France. They are not terribly interested in assimilating into the greater American culture. American immigration policies make it damn difficult to deal with them in any positive way. America, too, is infected with the Politically Correct virus that adores equality of cultures (ours is a lower-grade virus than France’s, but it’s there, anyway, and it could easily ramp up to full strength as we make decisions on immigration based on emotion.)

To be sure, we have immigration laws that could check illegal immigration if that were desired. It apparently isn’t, very much, in the halls of power that decide where $$$ get spent and how. We also have a far stronger culture of acceptance of immigrants (we are a pretty damned mongrel country as it stands today, and thank God for that), especially when it is apparent those immigrants are willing to pitch in and make America strong. To date, we have not officially segregated Mexican immigrants into squalid housing projects designed by a maniac po-mo architect out in the hinters, and it’s doubtful that we ever will do that.

But that’s just one mistake we won’t make. If you read the stories and blog posts about the riots in Paris, though, you’ll see quite a few eerie parallels to the immigration problems we’re looking at in America today. If we think about it hard enough, it’s a pretty sure thing that we can avoid the fate of the Frogs entirely. But we do have to start thinking about, and then talking about it, from a rational point of view.

Comments

[Dad29]

A point the blogger fails to address is the matter of culture/religion. And it's a very damned important point.

Back about 20 years ago, a very astute commentator and accomplished historian observed that US immigration policy was headed for big trouble--not because of Mexican/South American immigration (although border control should be exercised) but because of non-Judaeo-Christian immigration. It was his contention that the non-J/C immigrants are simply less 'assimilable' than immigrants from other Western countries.

Looks to me as though France is proving that, albeit one case does not a statistical certainty make...