The left is making much lightness of the migrants coming across the channel, saying how could we be so heartless as to stop all of these pregnant mothers and families with kids coming across the channel?
All very twee and ever so unthreatening. What's to worry about? These families will assimilate into our culture and before you know it will be model citizens...
Except that I know they won't. I've seen what happens first hand. I've lived through mass immigration. I've seen neighbourhoods become ghettos and for the immigrant communities to close ranks, close doors, close their own borders, even as the left insist we keep ours open.
I lived in a multicultural area. I have said this many times. Back in the 60's on our street you could find Poles, Romanians, Indians, Yugoslavians. Those from the Eastern Bloc displaced when the iron curtain fell were happy to be here. The Indians likewise wanted to be here to make a better world for their kids. They understood the benefits of being here and were grateful.
In the 70's we received a wave of different immigrants. They were unsure why they were here. Sure, they were shopkeepers, they took opportunities. But as more and more came, they became resentful. They installed enclaves and isolated themselves, establishing closed borders. Where the Poles and the Romanians and the Indians had happily shared their culture, their homes and their lives, the immigrants from Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world thought their religion superior, their way of life better, they refused to integrate, except for a small percentage. Mainly those who had to deal with the world outside the community. Those within the community live isolated lives, insulated from Western values and as they see it Western imprudence. The isolated core that gives rise to the us/them extremist murderers and hides the child rapists. The other communities were pushed out, sometimes forcibly by the new, resentful neighbours.
Those people not intercepted by Border Force and get to the beaches melt away into the countryside. Mobile phone in hand they contact cousins who direct them to the isolated enclaves. There they can live and earn a living without the British authorities ever knowing about their existence. They are off the books, illegal. Driving cars insured in the names of cousins, holding driving licences in other names. Woe betide you meet one on the road.
The people arriving on the beaches are the most organised, the most resourceful, but not quite the most dangerous. That moniker is left for those that make the crossing at night. Those are the people smuggling not only people, but people of fighting age, with an ideology imbued in them. They run up the beaches and into the night to be picked up in vans. Sometimes they carry other things. They carry drugs, or weapons, and pass them to their brothers waiting in the white vans that drive to the coast of an evening.
Going back to the lefties, they say only 5000 have arrived, hardly a threat, hardly a drop in the Ocean, why can 't we accept them with open arms?
Because dear leftie, 805 of those 5000 are of fighting age and male. That's 4000 young men in the country illegally from who knows where.
Let's be hypothetical and assume that a low number, possibly 5 or 10% of those young males are not looking for employment, but are looking to cause mayhem. To use those smuggled weapons?
That's 200 men. Just think what a group of 200 organised men could accomplish. They can recruit, they can organise, they can attack.
Even if only 10 percent of those men attacked a shopping centre as we have seen in other countries, that's 20 men. They can cover all the exits in a shopping centre and go on a shooting spree. 20 men is plenty enough to cause major carnage, cause more than 20 deaths. The trade off would be worth it for them. There would still be 90 percent of them available to continue and they could recruit more.
We can't keep those 200 men under surveillance. Not all the time. And we already have more terrorist-grade radicals and extremists than we can keep an eye on. So why would we want to allow more in?
I hope that when the first atrocity occurs that involves an illegal immigrant or a significant number of organised immigrants that the left and the Labour party especially will eat humble pie. I would hope that they won't blame the government when they, the left were the apologists for terrorists.
This is a National Security threat. It threatens every single one of us. I'm not scared of Muslim extremists, I have no irrational fear of Muslims in general. I have had Muslim friends, I have Muslim family. But I have also experienced the extremists, I have knowledge of them and I know how they live, isolated amongst the Muslim community. I know how they manipulate not only their own community, but manipulate outsiders.
If you can't see the threat, then I suggest you have been manipulated buy the very people that despise you, are too trusting and cannot see what is very obvious.