The West Is Realizing Ancient Truth That Open Borders Kill Nations

Frida Ghitis : The open-border experiment has failed. The promises of humanitarian uplift, cultural enrichment have birthed troubling social fragmentation, deepening economic insecurity, and surging waves of crime that are reshaping the continent — and world.

Ghitis says the promise of integration ignored West’s Fundamental Christian identity.

The illusion that large-scale immigration is sustainable in a liberal society is laughable, Ghitis writes.

Multiculturalism, once hailed as moral response to globalization, has morphed into a quiet surrender.

Western nations increasingly accept demands for parallel legal systems, accommodations for illiberal religious practices, and speech codes designed to protect sensitivities rather than truth.

Rise of far-right movements across Europe is not, as the left claims, a mere backlash rooted in racism or nostalgia.

We must not be ashamed to defend what Henry James calls the local idiosyncrasies”.