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I thought these are supposed to be wrong??
As a rule of thumb any meme format will always be used to convey the opposite message
Not wrong, more like simple minded. Open borders is a bad idea on things like security. If you think people are all nice and good and wouldn't abuse open borders, I don't know what to tell you.
You need a process for immigration that is helpful but ooen borders is dumb as fuck.
looks at EU thats a lot of countries that allow citizens moving freely through them. Strange how it works so well.
Citations needed
To be clear the issue isn't only the people coming not being integrated correctly but also the abuse of migrants fleeing desperate situations by people within the hosting country.
The exploitarion largely stems those migrants not being 'citizens' so do not execrise the same rights. And they cant speak up without threat of deportation. It only drives the point borders enforce exploitation.
That would be convenient for your point but at this juncture I'd recommend you look it up if you really care because I have no willingness to carry on with this discussion.
I'm not the one to make the original claim. So instead asking me to back up mine, you back up yours first. Should be easy right?
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement" doesn't really sound like border enforcement is part of their remit, more sounds like they should be making sure people DO immigrate to the US, or more realistically ensuring people follow the correct processes to immigrate.
Sadly, not how it's going. Especially with dead and / or arrested citizens.
Their predecessor, Immigration and Naturalization Services, was split up after 9/11 with the creation of Homeland Security. ICE was established as the immigration law enforcement division, and Customs and Border Patrol as another, somehow worse enforcement division. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the department that actually handles legal immigration.
i'm not saying open borders.
i'm saying no borders.
The entire earth belongs to everyone. It's madness to close one section of it off and say that nobody else can ever go there without your permission.
and no states.
and no police or prison.
It really felt like flipping a switch similar to when I left Catholicism. Once I started questioning borders, I very quickly got to the point of being utterly baffled that people buy into the idea of borders at all.
yeah, the cult i left was similarly all-encompassing. you look at the world and say "why the fuck are we drawing lines"
It's dumb to think you can close 12,000 miles of borders, and even dumber to pretend freedom of movement isn't a right everyone, not just the wealth class, has.
I am so sick of the open borders boogeyman I have turned into a radical open borders maniac. I will become the stupid strawman that they have erected!
Open the borders in all of America now motherfuckers. Stop restricting the flow of people. It is a human rights violation to fuckup their countries and then force the people to stay there. Literally the only way to solve this is with open fucking borders.
Anything less than this is an admission that we are the oppressors for all of America.
Legitimately asking here,
Would this mean you'd like anyone to come into America without going through a process? Like just allowing the people to walk in and out?
Or is it you want to reform the border?
You ever been to Europe? Lots of borders you can cross without even realizing it. It's anti-human to allow goods and services to traverse borders but not people.
Counterpoint, Europe has its own borders and you can't cross those if you're not from inside of the EU. And even that is a specific subset of EU countries.
Akin to inter-provincial/across state line travel. I think a lot of people outside of Europe just view it the same as a provincial setup.
They've got agreements between these various countries. No reason we can't expand that list of countries.
But not from outside the EU. Europe in total is still smaller than the US.
If you want an accurate comparison, you have to imagine the EU as one country and the members as states, or the US as a union and the US states as countries.
If you look at it like that, the border policy is basically the same.
Those are all still separate countries though. I don't see how their size relative to the US is relevant. The countries have agreements amongst themselves that include an open border policy. There is no 'natural' reason why such agreements can't be expanded, or implemented elsewhere.
Not disagreeing with you there. Just that the argument of comparison to the US is lacking.
Why does size matter? What exactly changes? If every country joined the EU. What then?
Within the EU sure, because they're "softer" boarders because of the way it's structured. Closer to crossing state lines in the US. They don't allow free movement with non-EU nations.
It sounds like you're saying "of course you can have open borders if you have open borders". No kidding.
More "of course you can have open borders if you can pick and choose which borders"
Yeah, I am sorry, but I struggle to see the real harm in abolishing borders.
And please don't say crime. Americans, that have lived there before do just as many of them as immigrants (normalized for income) and pretending otherwise would be delusional and racist.
Crime mainly flows out of the US not into it. US citizens are some of the worst reactionary criminal hate filled losers on the planet. If we needed borders it would be to keep Americans out of other countries for their safety.
Would this mean you’d like anyone to come into America without going through a process? Like just allowing the people to walk in and out?
Yes.
What are you so afraid of?
I don't advocate open borders as a final solution, but it would probably be better than what the federal government is doing today. And it would be better than letting ICE continue.
I think it's only a question of WHEN the population decline in the developed world affects economies enough that countries offer immigrants incentives and actively recruit people to move there.
No more borders ! No more nation states !