How do you have open borders and yet restrict criminals or suspected terrorists from entering? Either you have no restrictions or you have some restrictions. If you have some restrictions then you will have illegals that need to be deported which means you will need some kind of enforcement to do the deporting. There is no feasible way to run a modern country with truly open borders.
You leave the borders open. If a terrorist comes across the border, you send the police to arrest them. You arrest criminals and prosecute them. Why is this so hard? You only need a completely separate organization if you want to control the numbers of people coming into the country. If you don’t care who comes, and just want to make sure there aren’t violent criminals coming in, the police are more than capable of handling that.
You require documentation so you can check if they have a criminal past. If there’s no documentation then treat them like someone on parole and give them an ankle monitor. It’s not rocket science, we just our politicians’ job security depends on not fixing problems.
Seriously. This person is using the right wing strawman version of open borders. We had open borders in the 19th century, but there was still a customs office. You still had to show up, register, and declare yourself. And they filtered out what criminals they could back then. Open borders simply means that anyone is able to come if they’re a law-abiding person.
How do you have open borders and yet restrict criminals or suspected terrorists from entering? Either you have no restrictions or you have some restrictions. If you have some restrictions then you will have illegals that need to be deported which means you will need some kind of enforcement to do the deporting. There is no feasible way to run a modern country with truly open borders.
We should have an immigration quota of over 1 million people per year and have unlimited work visas.
You leave the borders open. If a terrorist comes across the border, you send the police to arrest them. You arrest criminals and prosecute them. Why is this so hard? You only need a completely separate organization if you want to control the numbers of people coming into the country. If you don’t care who comes, and just want to make sure there aren’t violent criminals coming in, the police are more than capable of handling that.
You require documentation so you can check if they have a criminal past. If there’s no documentation then treat them like someone on parole and give them an ankle monitor. It’s not rocket science, we just our politicians’ job security depends on not fixing problems.
Seriously. This person is using the right wing strawman version of open borders. We had open borders in the 19th century, but there was still a customs office. You still had to show up, register, and declare yourself. And they filtered out what criminals they could back then. Open borders simply means that anyone is able to come if they’re a law-abiding person.