The link in the OP in no way limits the "open borders" concept to moving/living to/in another country. It's the movement from one country to another for a plethora of reasons. Could be to live. Could be to work. Could be to visit.
Then we simply disagree
. "Visiting" is very different from working and living in my view. I guessing that you did not enter the EU without paperwork, merely moved from one country to another within the EU without paperwork, much like one travels from TX to OH and all states in between without paperwork, but to enter the US required paperwork.
Am I right on that, or did you enter the EU without paperwork?
I thought the last two paragraphs were good. The severe lack of human empathy surrounding the immigration argument is pretty stunning, at least from the majority of this forum.
Watching video of Border Patrol agents
stabbing, kicking, or dumping out water bottles left out on trails where migrants regularly die of thirst, I find it hard to fathom the blatant cruelty that would inspire such an action. I spoke with one Border Patrol agent last year who witnessed a senior training officer
kick a water bottle out of the hands of a 4-year-old boy who had been lost for days in the desert. How can someone do that to another person? How can someone refuse water to a person dying of thirst? The only way I can understand such an act—and I’ve spent a long time trying to understand it—is through the logic of the border: that imagined line that lets us ignore one another’s humanity.
Last year another Border Patrol agent was exonerated after shooting a teenage boy through the border fence 10 times from behind. The boy was walking on a sidewalk in Mexico and died that night. Recently, four humanitarian-aid volunteers were convicted for leaving water out on trails where migrants regularly die of thirst. That moral contradiction—the exoneration of murder and the criminalization of humanitarian aid—cannot be explained by law. Only by the logic of the border does such a deadly injustice make any sense.
I absolutely do not find taking water from a 4-year old or a 40 year old "blatant cruelty" at all. As a law enforcement official, I'm pretty sure that the water was not provided by the Border Patrol agent and therefore a potential threat to the child and to the agent. I feel equally certain that water - known by the agent to be clean, good, healthy water - was provided to the 4 year-old.
Volunteers leaving water out on trails are aiding and abetting people performing an illegal act and
should be prosecuted and - if guilty of the act - convicted and punished for aiding and abetting illegal behavior. There is little if any difference from this and providing a get-away vehicle for a bank robber, or housing an escaped convict.
That's not lack of empathy, that's reality. I am personally very empathetic to these folks, and believe they should come to our embassies or consulates within their home countries and ask for asylum. If they deserve it, they should get it. If not:
…[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I urge these people who do not qualify for asylum to do the same thing our forefathers did.