1/ Tricky question: what is the opposite of a “border”? The typical fearful-right idea of a non-border is a vague fear of a massive flood of people, suggesting a dam-like containment of pressure. The idea of developing world “overpopulation” encourages this mental model.
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you and I are both here because America is and has been open to immigration. this legal openness was rooted in culture, in a certain kind of idealism, however you feel about the attitudes you encounter.
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higher in the order of American ideals is democratic representation, that government will be elected and serve the popular vote. seemingly even above that, behind everything, is this idea that America as a state will exhist, and therefor have borders
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