Whether it’s deaths in the back of a crossborder van or seeking asylum in a church in Calais, the barriers to the entry of immigrants are an insult not only to the 1951 Geneva Convention but to the values that the west and especially Europe stands for. Globalisation is first of all about international flows and these not only include goods and capital but, most important of all, people.
At huge expense the rich nations have created immigration controls which are not only a direct drain on the taxpayer, but also the indirect source of the death of ‘enlightened’ Europe. With their lack of courage, European governments are presiding over the emergence of the reign of the geriatrics with their fears, rigidities and costly terminal diseases.
