The turmoil in Libya and elsewhere in the region has toppled or undermined North African dictators who negotiated a web of benefits from Europe, including aid and diplomatic standing, in return for stopping immigrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean.
Without the assistance of those leaders, many in Europe worry that they will face new waves of illegal immigration not only from the liberated areas in the north, but from much of sub-Saharan Africa as well.
The immigrants would arrive at a time when much of Europe ”” struggling with high unemployment and lethargic economies ”” is already awash with anti-immigrant sentiment, and many countries say they are simply incapable of absorbing poor migrants.
The waves of immigrants to Europe and the United States are not seeking so much to live in Europe and the U.S. as they are seeking to live in lands where the European and American cultures ‘guarantee’ freedoms and opportunites that do not exist or are corrupted in their homelands.
The unfortunate side effect of such massive immigration to Europe or the USA is that the floods of immigrants bring with them those negative and oppressive elements of their cultures that they are fleeing in the first place.
These negative cultural influences from their homelands can only damage the societies in Europe and the USA that they are seeking to join as residents/citizens.
The real things that they are seeking can be found in their homelands if those homelands are blessed with self-less political leadership that stresses personal freedoms, personal responsibility, self-discipline, education, and hard work.
Addendum to my comment #1.
Unfortunately what is now disappearing from among Europeans and Americans are exactly thosee guiding principles of “self-less political leadership that stresses personal freedoms, personal responsibility, self-discipline, education, and hard work.”