Every late December sees lists of important events that have come and gone in the past calendar year. One of the most fascinating is the list of top news stories chosen in a poll of US editors and news directors. It is a snapshot of one year’s news, but it can also reveal underlying trends in society, such as the declining acceptance of globalism as a desirable political principle.

In addition, bad immigration ideas like open borders and unexamined diversity also took a beating as their results became clear in Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel invited Syrians to her country beginning in 2015, and more than a million mostly muslim refugees came from around the world to occupy Europe in that year alone. Increased terror attacks followed.

The rancorous presidential election ranked as the most consequential 2016 event, where the nation-state candidate won, not the status-quo globalist. Immigration enforcement was a vital part of candidate Trump’s appeal to voters, one he made from the day of his announcement.

The #2 item, the BREXIT divorce of Britain from the European Union, was largely based upon the voters’ rejection of the open borders required by the EU.

In the #4 event, the Orlando nightclub murders were committed by the Omar Mateen, the son of Afghan muslims in another second-generation immigrant problem.

The #5 listing of worldwide terror attacks notes murders in the Middle East, along with horrific jihads in the Brussels airport and in Nice, France. The European attacks have been made possible by open borders welcoming historic enemies from the Islamic world.

So that’s four items out of 10 that are news headliners with permissive immigration as a central or important part. But the scribblers still haven’t figured out that not all diversity is equal.