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Up to now, there has been minimal if any media discussion on the impact the current, record border crisis is having on housing and shelter resources in the U.S. Recent media coverages, though, detail how the Biden administration is depending upon overburdened non profits and requesting unprecedented FEMA funding amidst the chaos.

For eight days in July 1834, immigrants' fear of the mere possibility of a future flood of newly freed slaves from the South competing with them for jobs in New York City boiled over into a full-scale riot involving thousands. This Juneteenth is a good time to think about the forces that had long opposed emancipation, perhaps none more vigorously in the North than new immigrants from Europe -- a product of thoughtless, uncontrolled mass immigration.

The issue of high levels of immigration is not unique to the United States. An op-ed from the United Kingdom's The Times explains how Britain has recently grappled with the same situation. The overarching point is applicable to the United States: resources and land are finite and housing shortages are already pervasive. This continued population growth, which is driven by immigration policies, is out of the control of the average person as each country's governments are at the helm.