The West Is Finally Realizing the Ancient Truth That Open Borders Kill Nations

Originally published by The Federalist

On June 1, Poland jolted the globalist movement, with Karol Nawrocki, a conservative historian and defender of national heritage, winning the presidential race in a narrow but decisive victory. His win is not an outlier but part of a broader European trend, in which voters across the continent have increasingly supported leaders who promise to defend their national identity and borders.

A decade after Germany threw open its borders to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, it is time to confront an obvious truth: The open-border experiment has failed. The promises of humanitarian uplift, cultural enrichment, and economic growth have instead birthed troubling social fragmentation, deepening economic insecurity, and surging waves of crime that are reshaping the continent — and world.

This experiment has been tested in both Europe and the U.S. — the consequences of this leftist, globalist ideology are relatively similar. In the U.S., criminal aliens have victimized innocent Americans like Laken Riley, and violent members of Tren de Aragua have taken over apartments in Colorado. In Europe, migrant gangs in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and others in the Baltic and Nordic regions have skyrocketed violent crime and spread drugs in otherwise peaceful communities. In Belgium, local imams instead of Belgian law govern parts of Brussels. The Netherlands has struggled with the legacy of Theo van Gogh’s murder by a radicalized Moroccan-Dutch youth. Italy’s southern ports have faced repeated clashes with illegal African migrants. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who is struggling to get migrants to self-deport even with enormous financial incentives, recently acknowledged, “we do have a problem with integration of immigrants.”

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