Bedbugs, once eradicated in the United States through sanitation, insecticides and stricter immigration controls, are now so widespread in New York City that one in 10 persons is battling the insects at home, according to a survey by the New York Daily News.

Multiculturalism and mass immigration have brought more than just diversity to the city where a majority of the population is foreign-born. They have brought bedbugs, so best delay your trip to the big city.

The blood-sucking pests are hiding in mattress covers, luggage, clothing, shoes, waiting to bite sleepers. About the size of a grain of rice, they are often hard to see and difficult to kill. In the city they have been found on subway cars, in schools, offices, movie theaters to the extent that the AMC Empire 25 theater complex shut its doors in August to try to deal with the bug infestation on the seats.

Bedbugs are uncommon in Western, industrialized nations, but endemic in less-developed countries from which U.S. elites and left-wing groups are eager to import cheap labor and future voters, according to Middle American News.

Margaret Dement

Madras