Insanity from the NYTs! Democrats should embrace open borders

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/opinion/open-borders-immigration.html

There’s Nothing Wrong With Open Borders

Why a brave Democrat should make the case for vastly expanding immigration.

Imagine radically shifting our stance toward outsiders from one of suspicion to one of warm embrace. Imagine that if you passed a minimal background check, you’d be free to live, work, pay taxes and die in the United States. Imagine moving from Nigeria to Nebraska as freely as one might move from Massachusetts to Maine.

There’s a witheringly obvious moral, economic, strategic and cultural case for open borders, and we have a political opportunity to push it. As Democrats jockey for the presidency, there’s room for a brave politician to oppose President Trump’s racist immigration rhetoric not just by fighting his wall and calling for the abolishment of I.C.E. but also by making a proactive and affirmative case for the vast expansion of immigration.

When you see the immigration system up close, you’re confronted with its bottomless unfairness. The system assumes that people born outside our borders are less deserving of basic rights than those inside. My native-born American friends did not seem to me to warrant any more dignity than my South African ones; according to this nation’s founding documents, we were all created equal. Yet by mere accident of geography, some were given freedom, and others were denied it.

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It doesn't assume shit you assholes. No one wants to move to these shit holes. Thus leaving only a few places people want to go. If everyone wants to go to America and Europe you destroy America and Europe. Why don't those that want open borders move to Nigeria? Are they racist. Do they realize it would suck? Some weren't given freedom they fought for it. You can't fit 7 billion in the places that have a good quality of life and maintain that. Why don't they go there and help them fix their countries? Give them the diversity they claim is so great. Because they care about how open borders benefits them and that is all or else they would be there were they could help larger numbers of people instead of bothering Americans
 

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The traditional left-right paradigm is dead. It's now globalism vs nationalism (populism - the right to self-governance).

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They're becoming increasingly unhinged
 

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