One feature of illegal immigration – and for that matter some legal immigration – is that usually the people who arrive are willing to work hard at often menial and low-paid tasks to thus establish themselves, perhaps even becoming model citizens.
However their offspring grow up to find few jobs for them in this “new land” and soon exhibit a sense of alienation. With nothing to occupy them in the way of work or a chance to share in what they see as a prosperity denied, they yearn for their “old culture” which, taken second or third hand, they romanticize. In turn, when frustrated, these kids reject their parents’ adopted inclusion and as a consequence develop social problems, maybe even turn to crime.
Efforts are then funneled into social cohesion; increasing amounts of money and resources are handed over to try to contain trouble, but without a viable or effective solution. Ghettos spring up, language starts to become a barrier and resentment among the settled population grows.
Somehow all this escapes governments, but why am I not surprised?
