Media: CNN on “open borders”
Provides advice on how to circumvent ICE operations targeting illegal aliens, and provide monetary or other assistance to families that may be in the country illegally. As noted previously, the general mood seems to be once you have entered the US on a valid visa, and then overstay that visa, you should be permitted to remain in the U.S. forever.
The general mood seems to be that the U.S. has no right to enforce its border or immigration laws and regulations and our border should be de facto open to everyone.
What Trump is forgetting: American nations have a long history of open borders | Daniel Mendiola | The Guardian (The author is a tenured college professor and is well liked by students. He argues that in the past world, countries had open borders, therefore, we should have open borders in 2026. In the past he argued that we closed borders for racism and corporate profits: America had open borders until 1924. Racism and corporate greed changed that | Daniel Mendiola | The Guardian)
An Economist’s Case for Open Borders – Dissent Magazine – here, a global elitist, with a tenured job under no threat from immigration, advocates for open borders – he is already basically a resident of multiple countries (something not available to most of us):
“Since January 2014, he has been a research professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS).[3][4] He also teaches at the London School of Economics[5] and the Barcelona Institute for International Studies.[6] In 2019, he has been appointed the honorary Maddison Chair at the University of Groningen.[7]
We seem to have an unclear mindset on “open borders” – some think we already have it, some think we should have open borders, others think not, and many wonder what it means for the future of a country to have unlimited immigration without meaningful values alignment. If all countries have open borders, we no longer have countries – we have one global country and one global government.
Should there be any limits? The US has 340 million people. Should we grow to 500 million? 1 Billion? 2 billion? The reason you have long lines at post offices, grocery stores and DMV offices or have to make campground reservations six months in advance is because we lack the infrastructure to support our current population. What happens if we double that population with immigration?
If we have open borders, do we require a common language? Any common values? The Case for Open Borders – NYCLU (the author speaks English and Spanish, has a BA and MA in creative writing and has lived in Mexico).
Opinion | There’s Nothing Wrong With Open Borders – The New York Times – the author is an American, born in South Africa to Indian parents.
Some US cities also allow non-citizens to vote in local elections: House of Representatives Passes Two Bills Overturning DC Open-Borders Laws | FAIRUS.org
There seems to be a pattern – the more globally elite you are, the more you are a “global citizen”, the closer you are to recent immigration, the more likely you support open borders.