Vinnie PennHost
and I was one of them up until a couple of years ago when my daughter did some schooling abroad, and I went to the UK.

I think a lot of Americans, they just think illegal entry and enclaves, I love the choice of that word, that's an American problem.

And it's like, no, if you looked around the world, you'd see that people fleeing these horrific places, some good, some bad.

The UN's not stepping in to straighten out any of these places that everybody has to get the hell out of.

It took me going abroad to see for myself, oh, wow, everybody's not just running for the good old U.S. of A. It's wherever they can get to.
It's been heightened over the past decade or so since Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, opened up the borders in 2015 during the Syrian civil war, and basically just people from all over Africa and the Middle East have just flooded into the continent since then.
And the thing is, look, as you said, there are... good people that are fleeing from real problems in the world.
The fact that Western European countries have very generous welfare states, and they know that if they could get there, claim asylum, they could get free housing, free money every month, free health care, all this type of stuff.
And the crazy thing about all of this is that there are a lot of these people, as we've been seeing in France over the past couple of days, there is a lot of still resentment towards the people, towards the Europeans in general.
You know, a lot of these people have like colonial anger as far as all of that goes.
And so this anger, anger over something that happened a couple hundred years ago, and they're taking it out on the countries that are paying them.

and I was one of them up until a couple of years ago when my daughter did some schooling abroad, and I went to the UK.

I think a lot of Americans, they just think illegal entry and enclaves, I love the choice of that word, that's an American problem.

And it's like, no, if you looked around the world, you'd see that people fleeing these horrific places, some good, some bad.

The UN's not stepping in to straighten out any of these places that everybody has to get the hell out of.

It took me going abroad to see for myself, oh, wow, everybody's not just running for the good old U.S. of A. It's wherever they can get to.
It's been heightened over the past decade or so since Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, opened up the borders in 2015 during the Syrian civil war, and basically just people from all over Africa and the Middle East have just flooded into the continent since then.
And the thing is, look, as you said, there are... good people that are fleeing from real problems in the world.
The fact that Western European countries have very generous welfare states, and they know that if they could get there, claim asylum, they could get free housing, free money every month, free health care, all this type of stuff.
And the crazy thing about all of this is that there are a lot of these people, as we've been seeing in France over the past couple of days, there is a lot of still resentment towards the people, towards the Europeans in general.
You know, a lot of these people have like colonial anger as far as all of that goes.
And so this anger, anger over something that happened a couple hundred years ago, and they're taking it out on the countries that are paying them.
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