(September 24, 2021 at 7:12 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Honestly, borders aren’t that big a deal to me. Sure, we should regulate the travel of specific dangerous people and we should restrict the transport of guns and drugs and human trafficking but that’s not what border agents are doing. Refugees shouldn’t be kept out.
The problem with open borders, is that citizens have the right to benefit from their own choices. This includes the money they spent on building the country, and the choices of laws and political governance, and the culture they have built, and even the social safety net.
It isn't a lot different from saying that you should be able to enjoy your retirement, because you saved your money during your working years. You have the right to something you've created.
Maybe not having open borders is selfish, but then again, perhaps not giving all your retirement money to the poor is also selfish.
I think not having a larger level of immigration is actually bad for the U.S., but I don't live there, so I don't get to say. The citizens have the right to determine the rate that they can absorb without them feeling like they are damaging what they have built. Perhaps anti-immigration sentiment is racist - and it likely is, but that doesn't stop them having that right.
