I believe it applies to the entire West, and explains why there is a surge in "right wing" parties. I believe it could easily be fixed with reform, but everyone on the "left" is too scared to do it but in doing so they are conjuring something worse. Even those who I've known that used to be "open border" have started to shift away from that idea. That's not going to go away until the problems are at least addressed in a meaningful way, and honestly more so in Europe than the US where integration is generally easier and more common.