Which countries have solved mass migration, and which ones succumbed
Following Vice President JD Vance’s warning that Europe was at risk of ‘engaging in civilizational suicide,’ the continent has come under the microscope for largely failing to deal with mass migration from mostly Third World countries. Associated with that has been a massive rise in violent crime and a failing economy.
Freedom of speech is under attack as many complain of a two-tier justice system and, making things even more problematic, Europe’s economy is not performing as expected.
United Kingdom
The U.K.’s economy has remained stagnant for the last three years with no growth in per capita income. “The country has pathetic performance, says Ben Habib, chairman of the Great British Political Action Committee, and former co-deputy leader of Reform UK. “The U.K. has become even worse than Europe.”
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Migration is now a national talking point. Immigration increased to between 1.2 and 1.3 million in 2022 and 2023, up from around 800,000 before the pandemic. It’s causing friction.
“National togetherness is now being torn to shreds as unprecedented levels of mass migration transform parts of our country beyond recognition,” observed Conservative Party Member of Parliament Robert Jenrick in a column for the UK Conservative & Reformer Post. “We have imported ethnic and religious tensions, meaning that conflicts on the other side of the world play out on Britain’s streets.”
Earlier this week, the State Department said it was monitoring the case of a woman in Britain who was put on trial for holding a sign offering counseling to women outside an abortion facility in the United Kingdom.
Fox News Digital reported the woman said, “Great Britain is supposed to be a free country, yet I’ve been dragged through court merely for offering consensual conversation … peaceful expression is a fundamental right—no one should be criminalized for harmless offers to converse.”
Violent assaults have also marred many parts of the U.K., when compared to other members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD.) Scotland topped the list with 1,487 assaults per 100,000 people, according to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. England and Wales ranked number three on the list with 730 violent assaults per 100,000 residents.
Fox News Digital previously reported that Britain was facing a free speech crisis due to the new left-leaning government, overzealous policing and courts cracking down on freedom of expression. Last August, the government warned its citizens to be mindful of posting content deemed offensive and threatened imprisonment. The Crown Prosecution Service posted a warning to social media platform X, which was amplified by the government’s official social media accounts, warning citizens, “Think before you post!”
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France
France’s economy has expanded in each of the last four years, but the rate of growth slowed dramatically. France also has a high debt level that will make it hard for the economy to grow fast, Venetis says.
Migration is a continuing problem in France with an influx of 317, 000 immigrants from outside the EU in 2022, up from 222,000 in 2013.
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Right-wing politicians, such as those in the National Rally, are highlighting the friction that the influx of people who don’t want to integrate into French society. National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, who up until this week was a leading candidate for the country’s 2027 presidential election, was just given a two-year prison sentence by a French court, which found her and other party colleagues guilty of embezzling public funds. Le Pen called the sentence a ‘death sentence,’ and said she felt they were “only interested” in preventing her from running for president.
Violent assaults in France ranked near the middle of the OECD list with 310 cases per 100,000 in the population.
Germany
Germany’s economy has been in a recession for the last two years. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate increased to 6.3% in March, from 5.9% last April. That’s partly due to soaring energy prices and competition from China.
“People are not happy about the fact that unemployment is picking up,” says Konstantinos Venetis, an economist at TS Lombard. He also says the statistics mask many workers’ reduced paid hours on the job. “The amount of people on this status has gone up considerably.”
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Migration surged to 1.6 million non-EU immigrants in 2022, up from less than half a million in 2021.
Germany’s right-wing populist AfD party has pushed to deport migrants seeking asylum, and its message gained traction with voters during February’s national election, where it came in second with 20.7% of the vote. The winning conservative Christian Democrats party was forced to adopt stronger immigration policies as a result of AfD’s success with voters.
The country had a relatively high number of violent assaults, ranking sixth in the OECD list with 630 cases per 100,000 people.
Italy
The third-largest economy in the EU has grown every quarter since the end of the pandemic, although, like many countries, the rate of growth has slowed.
At the same time, the debt level as a percentage of GDP dropped to 135% last year versus 138% in 2022 when Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni took over.
Meloni has been credited with her hard stance on illegal migrants. In 2024, the number of migrants totaled 67,317, down almost 60% from 157,651 the previous year. The drop is at least partly due a deal between Italy and Albania to enhance border controls, creating legal ways to immigrate and deterring illegal entry to the country.
Violent assaults were low at 110 per 100,000 residents.
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Poland
Poland’s economy grew by 2.9% last year, slightly more than the estimated 2.8% growth in the U.S., all while beefing up its defense sector and housing an influx of Ukrainians due to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
“Poland is a powerhouse and has national pride,” Habib says. “It’s a phenomenal country.”
The country also has a low level of asylum requests of 9,513 and 17,038 in 2023 and 2024, respectively. That compares to 237,314 in neighboring Germany.
Levels of asylum claims in Poland are likely to remain low as Prime Minister Donald Tusk doubled down on illegal immigration. Late last month (March) he temporarily suspended the rights of immigrants to claim asylum.
“I believe that it is necessary to strengthen the security of our borders and the security of Poles,” said Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, who signed off on the bill, as reported by Euro News.
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Poland had the lowest violent assault ranking in the OECD list at two cases per 100,000
Hungary
Hungary’s economy suffered a setback in 2023 but is now recovering, with growth of 0.4% in the fourth quarter of last year. Analysts at Trading Economics project that the country will grow by 2.7% next year and 3.6% in 2027.
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Migration from outside Europe has remained low at 57,000 in 2022 versus 45,000 in 2023. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban recently tweeted: “Don’t be afraid to stand alone. When 26 others accepted mass migration, we built a fence and said no. Now, more and more PMs are saying exactly what Hungary said ten years ago—they’ve realized we were right.”
Violent assaults in Hungary ranked low with 124 cases per 100,000 people.
Dark new measles discovery surfaces as RFK Jr heads to outbreak zone
A second child with measles in Texas has died, although the exact cause of death is unknown at this time, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to attend the child’s funeral on Sunday, a spokesperson told NBC News.
The pair of children and an adult in New Mexico who is also believed to have died from measles are the first reported deaths in connection with the disease in the country in a decade.
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Since January, 481 cases of measles have been confirmed in Texas alone, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
That total includes six infants and toddlers at a day care center in Lubbock who tested positive within the past two weeks, according to NBC News.
Two of those children are among 56 people who have been hospitalized with measles in the area since the disease began spreading in January.
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About one to three out of every 1,000 children infected with measles die from respiratory and neurological complications, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About one out of every 20 children with measles suffers from pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death from measles in young children.
The measles outbreak began in Texas in late January but has since spread to a few other states.
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In the U.S., 628 measles cases have been reported in at least 21 states and Washington, D.C., so far this year, according to NBC News.
Unsolved disappearance of news anchor back in the public eye three decades later
Jodi Huisentruit, a 27-year-old Iowa news anchor, vanished nearly 30 years ago. As authorities continue searching for her remains, a private investigator is pushing to unseal case records.
Huisentruit, a native of Long Prairie, Minn., was on her way to work as a morning anchor at KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa, when she disappeared in the early morning of June 27, 1995.
Over the years, private investigator Steve Ridge has pushed for the courts to unseal records relating to the case.
On March 27, Senior Judge James M. Drew in Cerro Gordo County ruled to partially unseal a 2017 search warrant connected to Huisentruit’s disappearance, while keeping the supporting affidavit under seal to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation.
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Ridge’s attorneys, Nellie O’Mara and Jesse Marzen, sought to unseal records related to GPS tracking devices placed on two vehicles tied to John Vansice. Vansice has long been considered a person of interest in the investigation, but he has never been charged in the case.
The vehicles, a 1999 Honda Civic and a 2013 GMC 1500, were reportedly registered at the Arizona address where Vansice was living in early 2017. The vehicles did not exist at the time Huisentruit’s disappeared in 1995.
Judge Drew denied the motion to reopen the court record to support unsealing the search warrant. The court ordered that the affidavit must remain sealed, since the investigation remains active.
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The court noted that the affidavit might reveal information only the perpetrator would know, such as specific times, items found or scene details. It added that an unsealed affidavit could help potential suspects “know what to hide.”
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The judge stressed that, even after 30 years, public curiosity alone does not justify jeopardizing an active investigation.
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Huisentruit’s family released a statement on the Jodi’s Hope Facebook page, saying they do not support unsealing the documents.
“As a family, we’ve received a number of inquiries about the legal battle currently playing out in the courts with Jodi’s case,” the family said in a statement. “Without getting too deep into the weeds, we all agree that if the release of the information would hinder the investigation in any way, then the search warrant should remain sealed.
“We are not onboard with the information being released to the public, especially while the investigation is open and ongoing. We do recognize there are a number of differing opinions on this – we respect that and ask that you respect ours as well. At this time, this is our only public comment to make on this matter.”
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Huisentruit was 27 when she disappeared in June 1995. The news anchor vanished in the early morning hours of June 27, 1995, in Mason City, Iowa.
After Huisentruit didn’t make it to work by 7 a.m., Mason City Police were notified. Her vehicle was found at her apartment, along with a bent car key, her high heels and signs of a struggle.
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To date, she is believed to have been abducted, but extensive investigations have failed to uncover any concrete evidence as to what happened or where her remains could be.
This everyday vitamin could ease the pain of a crippling disease
Previous research has shown that vitamin D deficiency can increase the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) — and a new study suggests that supplementing it in high doses could help reduce symptoms.
The study included 303 adults in France who had experienced clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) — which is a single, initial period of neurological symptoms that could lead to MS — within the last 90 days.
One group of participants took high doses (100,000 IU) of cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) every two weeks for 24 months.
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Among that group, 60.3% experienced a relapse of symptoms or new or enlarged lesions in MRI scans.
In comparison, 74.1% of those who took a placebo experienced those same effects — which is a “statistically significant difference,” wrote the researchers, who were from CHU Nîmes, Université Montpellier and multiple sclerosis centers in France.
The findings of the double-blind, randomized study were published in the journal JAMA.
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“Oral cholecalciferol 100, 000 IU every two weeks significantly reduced disease activity in CIS and early relapsing-remitting MS,” the researchers wrote.
“These results warrant further investigation, including the potential role of pulse high-dose vitamin D as add-on therapy.”
Bruce Bebo, executive vice president of research at the National MS Society in Oregon, was not involved in the research but commented to Fox News Digital on what he described as a “well-designed study.”
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“These findings suggest that high-dose vitamin D may be a promising approach for reducing disease activity in the very early stages of MS,” he said.
Previously published studies, however, failed to link vitamin D supplementation with reduced MS disease activity, although they used lower doses, according to Bebo.
“Overall, the evidence suggests that the effects of vitamin D supplementation are likely to be modest, will require high doses and will be most effective when taken early in the course of disease by people who are deficient in vitamin D,” he said.
The American Academy of Neurology currently recommends a range of 300 to 4,000 units per day for an adult, with 4,000 units as the highest recommended dose by most health authorities, Bebo noted.
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“It is important to note that the JAMA study used a significantly higher dose (100,000 units per day). While they did not report any adverse events, excessive intake of vitamin D can be toxic,” he cautioned.
“High doses can cause excess calcium in the blood leading to nausea, vomiting, weakness, frequent urination and, in some cases, kidney damage.
Anyone with MS who is interested in vitamin D supplementation should discuss it with a neurologist or primary health care provider to determine the best approach, he recommended.
World’s wealthiest televangelist puts luxury US condo on the market for jaw-dropping price
The wealthiest religious broadcaster in the world is looking to offload his luxury condo in Florida.
The beachfront residence of Brazilian billionaire televangelist Edir Macedo in the ultra-exclusive Porsche Design Tower Miami is now listed for just under $14.6 million after a price cut, according to public real estate records.
Macedo, founder and bishop of the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God), is no stranger to lavish living or controversy.
His net worth is estimated at $1.8 billion, ranking him 1,901st on Forbes’ real-time billionaire index. By comparison, Kim Kardashian’s net worth is $1.7 billion.
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The Porsche Design Tower, a $560 million architectural marvel completed in 2017, is famous for its car elevators that transport luxury vehicles directly into private condo garages. In 2013, The Real Deal reported that “nearly two dozen of the homes — 22 — under contract will belong to billionaires.”
The tower has a mandatory homeowners association with monthly fees ranging from $4,277 to $12,069.
Macedo’s neighbors over the years have included international celebrities like Lionel Messi, Colombian pop star Maluma, Mexican actress Thalía and Andrea Romanello Ferdinand, daughter of Patrick Romanello, who The New York Time reported was “alleged to be an associate of the Bonanno crime family.”
But the Florida condo might not be the only real estate Macedo’s family holds in the U.S.
According to a property intelligence database reviewed by watchdog group the Trinity Foundation, another Sunny Isles Beach condo worth $9.6 million is linked to the family. Yet, according to the Trinity Foundation’s research, the Miami-Dade County property appraiser lists only a shell LLC as the owner with no names publicly attached.
The Trinity Foundation, a nonprofit that investigates religious fraud, has long tracked Macedo’s financial activities.
“Macedo’s empire includes media companies, banking interests, and international real estate,” the group noted, citing his control of Brazil’s Record TV network and Banco Renner.
The Universal Church isn’t just active in Brazil. It operates worldwide, including in Portugal, Mexico and the United States. The church even built a modern version of Solomon’s Temple in São Paulo, Brazil.
Despite its clear wealth and power, the church’s “Contact Us” page on its U.S. website claims “the Universal Church does not provide financial aid programs.”
Their 24/7 livestream available on the Universal Church’s website currently offers “Blessed Water” for sale, which purports to heal everything from depression to cancer.
According to the Trinity Foundation, the organization also owns four private jets and a helicopter, assets rarely seen in the nonprofit religious world.
Macedo’s empire has had legal troubles. In 2008, he and nine of his associates were charged in Brazil with laundering roughly $2 billion.
As reported by The Associated Press, “The church allegedly used fake companies to launder the money, moving the assets abroad and then returning them in the form of loans used by Macedo and his accomplices to buy businesses, prosecutors said.”
Brazilian courts ultimately did not convict Macedo or his co-defendants.
More issues surfaced in 2019, when authorities in Angola charged four leaders of Macedo’s church with financial crimes, including money laundering.
According to Ver Angola, the fallout led to the expulsion of 22 Brazilian church members by Angolan immigration officials.
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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.