I’m always amazed at the arrogance and the
strangely imperial mentality of British and American pro–open borders
progressives who believe that they are performing an act of enlightened charity
when they “welcome” PhDs from eastern Europe or Central America driving them
around and serving them food. In the wealthiest nations, open borders advocacy
seems to function as a fanatical cult among true believers—a product
of big business and free market lobbying is carried along by a larger group of
the urban creative, tech, media, and knowledge economy class, who are serving
their own objective class interests by keeping their transient lifestyles cheap
and their careers intact as they parrot the institutional ideology of their
industries. The truth is that mass migration is a tragedy, and
upper-middle-class moralizing about it is a farce.
Perhaps the ultra-wealthy
can afford to live in the borderless world they aggressively advocate for, but
most people need—and want—a coherent, sovereign political body to defend
their rights as citizens.
Angela Lange
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