Dickson C. Igwe. Photo: VINO/File

Now, a well-known female commentator, online streamer, and radio host in the Virgin Islands, stated online that she was concerned with the country’s migration policy that was offering citizenship, aka belonger status, to too many aliens.
In a country where the alien population outnumbers by far the native population, hers was a valid concern.

OK. Before embarking upon a series of stories on Virgin Islands migration and being deemed a hypocrite, a number of caveats are appropriate, and a personal story.

This writer is a migrant who, by birth, geography, and marriage, is citizen of three sustainable and what he considers great countries: the UK, the Virgin Islands, and St Kitts and Nevis. Albeit the UK appears to be under pressure from a failed migration policy that is changing its social landscape.

He is Nigerian by paternity. However, he refuses to recognise Nigeria as a viable state. Nigeria is unsustainable; it consists of essentially warring tribes that have been at each other’s throats for decades: oil and violence being the club that has kept the failed state together.

For decades, wise heads have warned Nigerians over their culture of impunity, dishonesty, and sheer stupidity that rules the country.

Nigeria, for decades, has been on a stampede towards the edge of the abyss.

Today the country has gone off the edge, and the chickens have come home to roost.

Nigeria is a vast tragedy. A country in bloody civil war with the murders of thousands of Nigerians annually by terrorists and bandits, as the toxic elites have looted the security and military budgets. The most bountiful and wealthiest country in Africa, with infrastructure out of the stone ages.

Nigerians are the most desperate of migrants, dying in the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea, seeking escape from a living hell they themselves have created, while super wealthy elites- 1% of the population- live like Arab sheikhs.

Yes today Nigeria is fighting a civil war that claims tens of thousands of lives annually. Nigeria is a vast death trap.

The one solution is the dismantling of this deadly contraption and the formation of a loose association of independent states with a large army of peacekeepers, keeping some semblance of safety and security on the Nigerian street, until the people come to their senses.

OK. First of the caveats: the Virgin Islands appear to have a large alien population that has integrated well into the community. This is very much unlike the UK where all hell is breaking loose between the native population and outsiders, especially aliens from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Second, the negative effects of migration are limited on these islands, as the native population owns much of the commercial and residential land and property around the towns and villages.

Most migrants cannot buy land easily, and must rent from the native population- albeit this is changing as residents sell land to aliens. Native land rights keep the native population in a safe and secure space: the wolf from the door.

Third, most migrants into the Virgin Islands are from neighbouring islands and share similar demographics, cultures, and histories. This results in a degree of homogeneity that drives social stability.

Migration is the hot-button issue in the USA and Western Europe today.

Migration is the hottest issue in the west with millions of migrants flooding into various Western countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

These are not asylum seekers from wars, as is purported. Most are simply fleeing hardship in countries very poorly managed.