This short-sighted, reckless, and witless advocacy of open borders is the reason I stopped subscribing to @TheEconomist. Any rich country that adopted it would probably double its population within a couple of years and fall into chaos. (Or show me quantitative models otherwise.)https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1010187848098762753 …
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It's also not what you think it means . It is NOT open doors to Africa Asia etc
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Regardless, open boarder policy with any country, inherently makes our security dependent upon theirs. If we had an open border with Mexico, we are depending on Mexico’s vetting/security process. Do you trust Mexico counter-terrorism? Terror groups could sponsor Mexican cells.
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I'm talking about Europe and it's highly successful and popular open internal borders
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European open border policy is arguably the worst in modern history. Part of the reason the uk smartly left. Merkel in danger of losing control of Germany currently. Italy and Greece situation out of control. Turkey continues to allow bad actos through. Chaos in Europe.
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Greece out of control? Did you see the news yesterday? That's just one of five errors in your Tweet. Chapeau!
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This is simply not true. Here is a link to relevant data on Wikipedia for anyone interested. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis#Background_to_the_crisis_in_Greece_and_Italy …
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Cor. Wikipedia
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