noted, my new book, age of revolutions, the western world has seen a wave of unprecedented migration considering the numbers and the cultural differences of the immigrants people have actually been remarkably tolerant. what has changed recently is the sense that immigration is now happening without any legitimate process with the system being gamed and laws being broken when syrian migration and gulf, europe and 2015 angular merkel arbitrarily waived the usual procedures and germany alone talking about 900,000 asylum seekers from several countries. it is not a coincidence that the influx was followed by brexit and the rise of right-wing populist in many european countries in both the eu and the united states, gangs and cartels have recognized that they can game the asylum system by bringing in economic migrants who claim asylum and thus get the right to stay, have legal hearings and