THERESA MAY BE RIGHT

The rich world poor world divide creates an inevitable allure to destabilise borders. Unfortunately, migration in great numbers appears destined to failure.

However pluralist and accommodating a host nation is, integrating too large an influx of immigrants appears fraught with difficulties.

Resentment breeds fast and an abiding nostalgia and loyalty to the country of birth erodes the process of rooting firmly into a new home nation.

Conflicts of interest produce confusion and at times aggression.

There is also an inherent injustice in welcoming a tiny proportion of migrants who have managed, through relative 'wealth' paid to people traffickers and/or through perilous journeys, to make it across rich world borders, when the majority of their birth nation remain in destitution.

There is a pressing need to re balance the world's distribution of wealth and resources and to pursue more enlightened foreign policies that facilitate the establishment of peace.

However, if the rich world continues to take ever more migrants on board, that small part of the world that is still just afloat, may be in danger of capsizing too.

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