Since moving here to the new forum, one major story of the ongoing Collapse of Industrialization has escaped getting its own focus thread:  Immigration.  Most of the recent stories have gotten mixed up with the Homelessness and Housing threads, for the obvious reason that just about none of them crossing the borders these days have a place to live.

The migration problem is much deeper than just homelessness however, and it really demonstrates how provincial and bankrupt the belief is that we're not experiencing collapse because the lights are on here and cannibals aren't eating babies yet.  People who say this see no further than their own backyards, and since BAU seems to be operating here in the FSoA, Kollapsniks were wrong, there's plenty of oil so don't worry, be happy.

The reality is that collapse is moving along at a growing pace, which you can measure by the number of countries experiencing so much political upheaval that they have become ungovernable failed states.  This includes practically every country in South America, even formerly stable ones like Venezuela and Argentina.  Seeking to escape escalating violence, poverty and crumbling infrastructure, record numbers are swarming the borders, boarding buses and flooding the streets of "sanctuary cities" like NY, Chicago and Denver.  Each location adding 1000s of new homeless each week in cities unable to find additional beds just for the hundreds of additional locally grown homeless.

It's a recipe for civil unrest and with the POTUS election this year, we're likely to see conflict in the streets come he dog days of summer.  Should be interesting.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/white-house-responds-migrant-crisis-chicago

White House responds to growing migrant crisis in Chicago

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