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Thanks for this article, Chuck. As always, your insights and practical suggestions are much appreciated. Your words would have a considerable resonance with most ordinary folk in the UK. The BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation (right-wing conservative it is not) reports that about 300,000 immigrants arrive in the UK each year, mostly from the developing world but many now from eastern Europe. 100,000 indigenous Brits emigrate each year, about 40% of whom are professional people whom this country can ill afford to lose. Many resettle in the US, which is the third most popular destination after Australia and Spain. 5.5 million Brits, or 10% of Brits, now live abroad. Immigration has mainly benefited employers by means of cheap imported labour but even those who would employ local people are forced to follow on or have their businesses go to the wall. All this is analysed in depth by Anthony Browne in Do We Need Mass Immigration? (answer, no) ISBN 1-903-386-23-3. Mr Browne also studies the situation in the US, revealing a 1998 report that found that 25 million Americans in low-skilled jobs lost 12% of their wages as a result of the influx of foreign immigrant unskilled labour. In this country, the extra strain on public services, e.g. housing, education, medical etc., by unrestricted immigration is crippling and both petty and serious crime rates are increasing disproportionately in areas with either high immigrant populations or ethnic minority concentrations from earlier waves of immigration e.g. in the early 1950s. The 4 individuals who carried out the suicide bomb attacks in London on July 7th 2005, killing 52 victims and injuring and maiming 700+, were all 2nd generation offspring of immigrants. Also, since January 2005, by accident or outright homicide, members of ethnic minority groups, either immigrant or descended from foreign immigrants have killed 144 native Britons. The ratio of these types of killings versus the reverse is shockingly in excess of 70:1. But the end result of a nation that succumbs to unrestricted immigration and attendant emigration of its best individuals is described in 2 Kings 17. The scripture always declares 'the end from the beginning' Isaiah 46:10. This chapter describes the beginning of the nation of Samaria, of which less than 1,000 Samaritans survive today. 2 Kings 17 describes how God had to use drastic measures to urge the population to get right with Him. Only a few of the remaining Israelites did, in the reign of godly King Hezekiah, 2 Chronicles 30:10, 11. The rest, both immigrants and most of the Israelite population left, did not. God left them to wither, as any individual or nation does, when separated from the Lord Jesus Christ, John 15:6. Samaria never became a mighty nation and the near-extinct remnant today, 2700 years later, is a solemn warning for both the US and the UK. Both nations need to get back to the Book that made them great. As Queen Victoria said of the KJV, 'That Book accounts for the supremacy of England.' When the US adopted the ASV, 1901, your president got assassinated and a few years later, you got into WW1 which killed 100,000 of your boys. After you adopted the NASV of 1963, you got into Vietnam that killed another 60,000 of your boys. I would have to ask the same question I'd ask fellow Brits. 'When will ye be wise?' Psalm 94:8.