@Advocate,
America decided very early on, and has repeatedly reinforced the original decision, to have a large population of poor. Who benefits from these poor ? The rich. Money is a means of accounting for people's lives. The more money you have, the more goods you can buy which were produced by a portion of other people's lives. The poorer those lives are, the easier it is for a few to be rich. Most western countries have tried to artificially redistribute wealth, via health and education programs but many of these are work based anyway.
It is also useful to look at it from the point of view of ambition. The economy produces a pyramid structure, with the rich at the top and the poor at the bottom. Pressure can not be applied to the top. Pressure has to be from the poor going upwards to the top. Ambition works this way. By constantly bringing in immigrants, western countries have applied pressure to the pyramid at the cost of the countries they get immigrants from. These countries have many problems but we only take the most ambitious, the most determined, the best educated, the richest and so on. This is international robbery of human resource. If they were forced to stay in their own country they could improve it.
I dont know what makes people think different religions will all get along together. It is pressure from Oil producing Muslim countries that have made the west take in Muslims. Once in a country, Muslims do not convert Christians, they convert non-religious people. Islam was once a centre of science, but Rome was once an Empire, too. Islam is stuck in the Middle Ages, and many people will die before that changes. Far better to leave them in their own country where they can sort it out for themselves. Religions do not mix, they exterminate each other.
Quote:...could happen in the USA..(?????)
What is there to stop it ?