How to Manipulate Migration Data? Take Belgium...

by Alain Destexhe  •  January 24, 2018 at 5:00 am

• An honest report for this demographic forecasting should be called, "We shall soon be a million more, most of whom will be Muslims". But this kind of headline would invariably create a public debate on demography, population density and Muslim integration -- and that would be out of the question for European elites: that would make people super-anxious and worried.
• Tricky surveys are only used for migration numbers; never for unemployment rates, literacy rates or GDP growth.
• Unless there is rapid awareness about the exponential consequences of chain migration and arrivals from across the Mediterranean, mass migration will continue. Concealing this fact is pursued everywhere in Europe.

Turkey's then Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu (left) clasps hands with European Council President Donald Tusk (center) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (right) during a "migration deal" summit, in Brussels, Belgium, on March 18, 2016. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

It should probably not come as a shock that statistics can be, and often are, presented and manipulated by elites. In Belgium -- and in all of Western Europe except Austria -- they form an informal multiculturalist lobby, which dominates universities, NGOs, public institutions and the media, in order to promote a pro-migration agenda.

In a relatively short time, Belgium has changed dramatically. Without any public debate, it has become a massive migration state. In just 15 years, Belgium has seen an increase of one million in its population -- from 10.2 million in 2000 to 11.3 million in 2015. These numbers represent a 10% rise over a very short period.

From 2000 to 2010, net immigration was nine times greater than in the Netherlands; four times greater than in France or Germany and even greater than in the United States, a country historically open to immigration.

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