Why Don’t We Have Open Borders?

Why Don’t We Have Open Borders?

Possibly a Controversial Opinion

Borders are not sacred. They are not natural. They are not even consistent. Most were drawn by European men carving up the world, staking their claim to the spoils.

The Berlin Conference.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement.

All of the arbitrary colonial lines across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Yet we treat these lines like holy writ, using them to decide who gets to live, who gets to starve, and who gets bombed.

Borders are walls built to trap wealth on one side and suffering on the other. They are tools of global apartheid. If we actually cared about ending poverty, not just pretending to, we would tear them down.