We could not help but notice a poster held by a demonstrator during a recent march in Atlanta to protest Georgia’s long-overdue crackdown against enrollment of illegal aliens by that state’s colleges and universities.
The poster was written in Spanish. But in translation, it read, “We want a world without borders.”
Unfortunately, the threat of a world of open borders is precisely why it is vitally important that the United States maintain and protect its borders — and confront the issue of illegal immigration strongly.
Millions of people from Mexico and other Latin American nations have poured across our borders illegally under our existing laws against illegal immigration. It is safe to assume that in a “world without borders” in which even those weak laws were suspended, many millions more would flood across the border to find the economic opportunity available in America.
For that matter, literally billions of people worldwide would love a chance to get “a piece of the pie” in the United States. But our nation simply cannot absorb and accommodate all who would like to come here.