Lampedusa is a small Italian island of about 6,500 residents.

Yesterday, the population of Lampedusa more than doubled,

as more than 7,000 illegal immigrants from Africa arrived on the island

on more than 100 different migrant boats.

Human traffickers took advantage of com seas yesterday

to increase the number of migrant boats,

but this situation is nothing unusual, it is nothing new.

Hundreds, often thousands of foreigners illegally land at Lampedusa

every single day, and they have for well over a decade.

Well over a decade, at which point, they're processed by the government of Italy

and generally given easy entry into Europe, laws be damned.

This was the subject of Douglas Murray's excellent book, The Strange Death of Europe.

He published that book six years ago, and in the six years since,

he wrote that urgent analysis of immigration,

the situation has only gotten worse, drastically worse,

which is precisely what liberal politicians in Rome and Brussels

and throughout the West want.

According to them, this mass illegal migration is not a political problem,

but a solution.

More votes for the liberal parties, more social friction,

less traditional society.

But it's not merely a tactic of spite.

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