I don't believe in uncontrolled immigration anywhere, whether it's Mexicans in the U.S. or Syrians, North Africans and Afghans in Europe.
Countries have a right to control their borders. They also have a right to decide how to screen potential immigrants. Religion should, in my opinion, be a part of the screening process, and not only because of the different customs practiced by one set of religious groups versus another, or the fact that you're obviously not going to get ISIS members who are Greek rite Christians or Maronite Christians, for example.
It's also a question of how easily the backgrounds of certain migrants can be checked. We have quite a bit of experience in the U.S. (and also in Canada) with taking in Christian refugees through the various church groups, including Catholic Charities here in the U.S. Usually the churches here work with the priests in the Middle East.
As to your statements regarding the law enforcement aspect, I'm afraid you don't understand how this is supposed to work, although perhaps it's natural with people who have no experience in the field. These outbreaks should be treated in the same way that a well run police department would treat any other riot. There should be plans in place for the rapid deployment of numerous specifically trained squads as soon as calls come in. The "rioters" or "thieves" or men assaulting women should all be rounded up. From my experience, CCTV cameras are ubiquitous and should prove helpful. People in the area should be filming the events with their phones. All of this should aid in the identification of the perpetrators. Are you going to get all of them? No, you're not, but normal police techniques in terms of interrogation should lead to the names of others who escaped. More importantly, a few such instances should send the proper message.
Of course, this all presupposes that there is the political will to do this. In the U.S. the mayor and district attorney in Baltimore ordered the police to stand by and not interfere when a riot broke out and as a result a good part of the city burned to the ground. It was insanity of the first order. That would never have happened in Rudy Giuliani's New York.
Speaking of him, as his methods in New York showed, increased police presence on the streets, criminalizing and prosecuting even the more minor offenses (the "broken window approach"), and more aggressive policing leading to increased arrest percentages drives all crime rates down. It works.
See:
http://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/w9061.html
"The police measure that most consistently reduces crime is the arrest rate of those involved in crime, the study finds. Felony arrest rates (except for motor vehicle thefts) rose 50 to 70 percent in the 1990s. When arrests of burglars increased 10 percent, the number of burglaries fell 2.7 to 3.2 percent. When the arrest rate of robbers rose 10 percent, the number of robberies fell 5.7 to 5.9 percent. In the case of murder, the decline was 3.9 to 4 percent; in the case of assault, 2 to 2.4 percent; and for motor vehicle theft, 5 to 5.1 percent.
The contribution of such deterrence measures (the "stick") offers more explanation for the decline in New York City crime than the improvement in the economy, the authors conclude. Between 1990 and 1999, homicide dropped 73 percent, burglary 66 percent, assault 40 percent, robbery 67 percent, and vehicle hoists 73 percent. The authors' model manages to explain between 33 and 86 percent of those declines."
As to the "broken window approach":
"In this view, small disorders lead to larger ones and perhaps even to crime. As Mr. Guiliani told the press in 1998, "Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other."
None of this means that I support what has happened in Europe in terms of this unregulated flood of refugees. It shouldn't have been permitted, as I indicated above. The European community allowed this to happen. You tell me, is there the political will to expel all the recent immigrants, much less those who have lived there for years, or perhaps were even born there?
Complaining is all very well, but unless these things actually happen, or even until they actually happen, the measures I've described had better be put into place. People have a right to walk the streets of their cities unharmed.
