Illegal immigration isn't just an American problem. Europe, all the various nations on that continent that were the wellspring of Western civilization, also faces problems with unchecked, largely uncontrolled illegal immigration. However, there's a significant difference between the two areas. Much of the illegal immigration in the United States is from Latin America, and while there are criminals and bad actors in the midst of the flood that was allowed in by the Biden administration - largely with no questions asked - most of them are, like us, products of Western civilization. There are leavenings of people from places like China and the Middle East, but the majority are from Latin America.
In Europe, a great deal of the influx is from Muslim-majority nations, and that's causing them some serious problems.
In Italy, once home to the Roman Republic, a key nation from which Western civilization sprang, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is taking the European Union to task and demanding a re-thinking of the EU's immigration policies.
Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has told EU leaders to prepare for a first political debate on reforming the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the coming months in what would be a major step forward towards changing the international rules on migration. As The Telegraph revealed, she set out a plan to reform the ECHR so that it can meet modern-day challenges linked to illegal immigration, such as people-smuggling gangs.
Meloni announced a meeting in Brussels on Thursday, October 23rd, ahead of the European Council summit, to discuss issues ranging from the deportation of migrants convicted of crimes to other innovative solutions to illegal migration. The informal meeting was attended by leaders from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden.
Prime Minister Meloni is on the crest of a wave that we should hope develops into a tsunami in European politics. The continent and its people are in serious, no-Schiff danger of being overwhelmed; if the present course continues, the continent could very well be a Muslim caliphate in another two or three generations. The European peoples, after all, are not having children at anything like the replacement rate; a statement that certainly does not apply to the Muslim immigrants.
There are going to be legal challenges; reforming the existing fuzzy-headed policies can't happen overnight.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), part of the Council of Europe, was established to enforce the ECHR, which has been criticised for tying European governments’ hands on illegal immigration. For example, Meloni’s Albania Plan, under which migrants picked up in the Mediterranean would be processed in non-EU member Albania, has been mired in legal difficulties. Denmark also reached an agreement with Rwanda to process asylum seekers, but the deal remains on hold amid concerns over possible legal barriers, including the ECHR. Meanwhile, the Netherlands is preparing to send failed asylum seekers to Uganda in a plan also expected to face legal challenges.
Meanwhile, Islam is making its mark on the continent already, pushing even into the Vatican, and pushing for "blasphemy" laws.
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There is some hope: Some of the people of Europe - ethnic Europeans, from Ireland to Germany, are starting to push back. Some examples include:
- In Ireland, riots broke out after a "migrant" sexually assaulted a 10-year-old Irish girl. We might note that, historically speaking, the Irish are more than willing to knock heads together when provoked.
- In September, over 100,000 Brits took to the streets to protest Britain's self-destructive immigration policies.
- In Norway, also in September, the ruling left-wing coalition headed by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store narrowly fended off an electoral challenge from the anti-immigration Progress Party, which is heavily supported by the younger generation, especially young Norwegian men.
Back to Italy: PM Meloni, speaking to the recent UN General Assembly, had this to say:
In her recent speech to the UN General Assembly, Meloni pointed out that
These rules were established at a time when mass irregular migration did not exist and nor did human traffickers. … These conventions are no longer current in this context, and, when they are interpreted in an ideological and one-sided way by politicised judges, they end up trampling on the law rather than upholding it.
She makes a fair point. The current immigration laws in Europe were made for a very different time, and are now being taken advantage of by "migrants" seeking access to the nations of Europe's generous and largely unsustainable social-welfare programs. Those programs, too, were made for a different time, a time when most Europeans still, you know, had jobs. Now, things are very different. In the United Kingdom alone, as many as 1.15 million foreign-born residents were on some form of social welfare as of 2019. The programs include Out-of-Work Universal Credit (224,756), In-Work Universal Credit (192,125), Housing Benefit (467,036), and other benefits (158,124). The top five source countries for the dole-seekers were Poland, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Romania, and India.
That was six years ago. It's gotten much worse. The European Union as a whole, as of 2025, has over 45 million "migrants." The only thing that is keeping the number of people on the continent from becoming truly insane is that Europeans aren't breeding. The EU, on UN World Population Day, in July 2025, stated:
"In 2024 as in previous years, the number of deaths (4.82 million) continued to outnumber those of live births (3.56 million) in the EU, resulting in the aforementioned negative natural change in the population. The total increase that was recorded in 2024 for the EU population was exclusively due to (positive) net migration. In short, the natural change of the EU population (-1.3 million people) was lower than the net migration (+2.3 million), resulting in an increase in population of almost 1.1 million. Net migration increased in absolute value from +1.2 million in 2021 to +2.3 million in 2024."
The future, as the saying goes, belongs to those who show up for it. Europe appears to be opting out. Not so the "migrants."
Maybe Prime Minister Meloni can bring some sanity back into the discussion. Something needs to change; that much is certain. Europe is in danger of being engulfed, civil war in several nations (see: Ireland) is becoming a very serious possibility, and there's only so much time to put things aright before Europe is plunged into a new Dark Age.
