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Just trying to look to history to understand the current situation.

(Note that I certainly don't think immigration causes empires to fail, I'm just curious if immigration stops once they do, changes in a nation's economic basis for incorporating immigration, about the tendency for fear and hatred based politics to take over, etc.)

Online searches don't turn up much:

immigration failing empires
immigration declining empires

Immigration was a political issue in Britain in the 1960s -- no coloured people from the former colonies moving into our neighborhoods -- according to
"Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968" By Ronald Hyam
http://books.google.com/books?id=S9Qe_mLjs8MC&pg=RA1-PA351&lpg=RA1-PA351...

China in 221 B.C. Shih Huang-ti ascended to the throne of Chin which was a powerful feudal state in northwest China. Aided by espionage, bribery, and war he annexed other states and declared himself emperor.

During his reign, Shih Huang-ti destroyed the existing feudal structure and divided the empire into 36 provinces under a centralized administration. Networks of roads and canals were engineered, and the major part of the Great Wall was built. Weights, measures, coins, and written characters were standardized in a quest for cultural uniformity. Yet this also led to the burning of all books that diverged from official Chin philosophy and history. His autocratic rule and belief in magic had caused such resentment that the Chin dynasty collapsed four years later, even though it formed the model for all later dynasties.

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/Shih/a...

PWGD: need fact team to go around and danswer teh most common lies on public forums and such--

From the thread where I took the China quote, most every other post was bashing immigrants...
http://www.city-data.com/forum/immigration/72370-why-u-s-cannot-survive-...

"where overpopulation is the cause of poverty" (opposite is true)
"populations of immigrants who hold their host countries in very low regard." (not true, broadly speaking, and negative feelings have firm grounding in U.S./Europe actions within and outside their borders)
'willingly given up many of their civil liberties in a desperate attempt to "get along" with their angry newcomers' (blaming immigrants on security cameras? How about justice as an alternative to giving up liberty?)