The classically educated are probably the only people around nowadays who are not surprised at the headlines and debates regarding immigration. Being experienced in history, and clued into language, they remember that migrations have been a common characteristic of human society. Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, the German invaders of the Late Roman Empire, we're all migrations. The Empire itself, like all empires, was a mode of migration. Circumstances bring these things about. There isn't even anything unusual about the inept way the powers that be are dealing with the phenomenon now. Populations tend to slip and slide during times when the powers that be are mostly unimaginative careerists.
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