The World's Migrant Crisis Is Going To Get Worse



David P. Goldman, PJ Media: A Tidal Wave of Refugees Is Coming

Harden your hearts.

According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 68 million people around the world are or at risk of becoming refugees. The migration of a few million people has already turned the European Union inside out and motivated the election of an America-first presidency. What we have seen so far, though, is nothing compared to what is to come.

Fertility is declining in almost all the educated and prosperous parts of the world, notably including East Asia. But it remains extremely high in the least-educated parts of the world with the worst governance and the poorest growth prospects.

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WNU Editor: Long term readers of this blog know that I have been predicting this wave of refugees/migrants for years. High birth countries in Africa and Asia do not have the infrastructure to support these huge populations .... and coupled with their own dire political and economic problems, many who live in these countries simply want to go somewhere else. The problem is that First World nations are not built to accommodate huge influxes of migrants, and there is almost no political support within these countries to accommodate the tens of millions who are looking for a new home. So what will happen in the end .... expect borders to be more enforced, and migrants (unless they are skilled) to be told to go somewhere else.

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