Re: Europeans are no more happy about their illegal immigrants than Americans.
Actually, Europeans are unhappy about their legal immigrants as well.... Nonwhite immigrants, that is. White immigrants from Russia, Ukraine, Romania,..., whether legal or illegal don't upset them. Again, I still cling to my analysis that Europe struggles to remain a multicultural white monolith whereas the US has come to view itself, if grudgingly, as a multiracial monoculture:
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After all, that's what your immigration fuss is all about: Americans fret about Latino illegals because their huge numbers challenge your Judeo-Protestant monoculture and, eventually, jeopardize your (geo)political consensus. White Americans can live with ethnic minorities so long as... they remain "minorities"!
Europe's problem is racial --just think of the ongoing takeover attempt on Arcelor by Indian-born Lakshmi Mittal. If the latter had been a white American Bilderberger, the whole matter would already be settled and forgotten. Of course, intra-European M&As prove also difficult because the EU's big countries don't want to see rivals encroaching on their capitalistic/corporate turfs.... It has more to do with an internecine tug-of-war within the European ruling class.
Re: As for legal immigration, quotas in this country are much higher than they are in Europe.
Well, it's both easy and innocuous for the US to boast "record immigration quotas" when it's safely separated from other continents by two oceans! No matter how lax your immigration laws are, it's unlikely that sub-Saharan Africans, on their exodus to a better life, will attempt to cross the Atlantic towards Florida instead of the Mediterranean towards Spain! You don't have to care much about Africans, Arabs and Asians flocking to your gates: airline passengers travelling without a passport or a proper document must be "travelled" back at the carrier's expenses....
Besides, the fact that the US has genuinely embraced multiracialism makes it easier for US corporations to hire highly skilled, white-collar workers:
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder countered with ads in Berlin newspapers saying that foreign professionals were needed until more Germans were trained to fill information-technology jobs. Schroeder said that each foreign IT professional will create three to five additional jobs in Germany. An Indian diplomat in Germany said: "The United States has already taken the cream of our talented computer people. All that remains for the Germans are leftovers."
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Contrariwise, Europeans can't conceive of a computer/finance workplace as other than a lily-white sanctuary.... Bottom line: Europe gets the bums, and the US the brains.
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