Western immigrationists dangled the carrot of taxpayer-funded handouts and the allegedly easy life.

And migrants from a violent culture used the stick of murder to get to it.

That essentially is the story of hundreds of Somalians who recently took to the high seas trying to reach Spain. As Spanish media outlet OkDiario reports, relating a horrible tale reflecting inducement and inequity (auto-translated from Spanish):

The National Police is investigating more than 20 illegal immigrants spread across several reception centres in the Canary Islands for the killing of 72 fellow travellers from a cayuco that arrived on the islands on 25 August from the west coast of Africa. During the infernal route, the migrants under investigation decided to get rid of dozens of fellow passengers, accused them of witchcraft and killed 72 people before reaching Spain.

Witnesses say that the immigrants under investigation, all young, conspired to accuse dozens of immigrant fellow travelers in the canoe of witchcraft. According to witnesses, some were shot dead and others were thrown overboard before reaching the Canary Islands.

As to more detail, the Daily Mail reports:

Survivors are said to have told investigators several migrants also died of thirst and hunger and others threw themselves overboard after suffering delirium caused by dehydration.

It was not clear this morning if any women or children are among the alleged victims.

Spanish coastguards rescued 251 people on board the stricken boat some 265 miles from the Canaries, following an August 24 alert from a passing merchant vessel.

Survivors are understood to have told officials after they were brought ashore at Arguineguin on Gran Canaria’s southern coast on August 25 that around 320 people started the journey before they ran into problems at sea.

While this may be one of the more brutal incidents, migration-related deaths are nothing new. In fact, approximately 30,000 illegal aliens have perished trying to reach Europe during the last decade. Apropos to this and as the Mail also informs, relating another fairly recent incident:

In June Spanish police confirmed they had launched an investigation after the bodies of five migrants were found in the sea off the Balearic Islands with their hands and feet bound.

… The families of the men who died, all Somalians, later revealed they were shackled in a death ritual after they perished from starvation as they tried to reach Europe.

We should be clear, though, on why this is happening: destructive immigrationist policies perpetuated by Western globalists. “Immigrationism,” mind you, I’ve defined thus:

The belief that immigration is always good, always necessary, is not to be questioned, and must be the one constant in an ever-changing universe of policy.

And, of course, it doesn’t just kill migrants.

It’s also killing Western cultures.

The New American has often reported on how massive Third World (im)migration has resulted in demographic and cultural genocide in the West. As a consequence and for example, we’re “pressing one for English” in the U.S. There are Islamist-dominated “no-go zones” in Europe. And in 2017, a French “intellectual” even suggested “dividing” France — to avoid civil war with its Muslims.

And whence comes immigrationism? Leftists encourage these migrations because they know that, upon naturalization, Third Worlders tend to vote for them. Additionally, these leftists don’t like Western culture very much, and they relish changing its character.

There also are entities desiring cheap labor. The argument is that there aren’t enough native Western workers, and, anyway, there are jobs Occidental man just won’t do. Ignored here is that AI and robotics are poised to fill most worker roles in the near future.

But then there’s also the “refugee” phenomenon. The idea is that such terrible things are happening in much of the Third World that the West just must give its peoples safe haven. It is true, too, that life is rougher in developing lands. But it has always been rougher there. Yet studies have shown that, worldwide, we live in the most peaceful, prosperous age in man’s history.

So why is it that despite this, these improving conditions have been attended by increased, and continual, refugee migrations? Why does the West, more than when developing lands’ conditions were worse, fancy such inundation a moral imperative?

Part of the answer may lie in the fact that so many Third Worlders are now more prosperous. They may be, in fact, finally prosperous enough to change locales. (E.g., human smugglers don’t work for free.) Note here that many of them arrive on Western shores decently dressed.

Most significantly, however, Westerners have become inured to this inundation. Along with this, they’ve also been made to feel guilty about their comforts. This results in a destructive message sent to the Third World:

Get to the West any way you can. You’ll most likely be allowed to stay. And, oh my, the benefits and luxuries that you will enjoy.

So to use a twist on a Field of Dreams line, build a foreigner-friendly welfare state, and they will come.

The solution, however, isn’t complicated: Change the messaging. Toughen up and send back every single migrant who comes illegally. It may take a year or so of such enforcement for the new message to propagate. Once it does, though, and would-be migrants realize their efforts would be fruitless, they’ll stop coming. The alternative?

Perpetuate the status quo and allow hapless migrants, and Western cultures, to continue to die.

(Hat tip: Commentator Olivia Murray.)