When I think about it, the term open borders has at least two different meanings.
1. It could refer to a physical barrier that would distinguish between the border of two different countries. Lack of a barrier would make that space open.
Like the Canadian-American border.. oh hang on - Trump's not trying to keep brown people from crossing that border... my bad
2. It could also refer to two different nations whom view every humans as sovereign, thereby some or all of those nations allow free and uninhibited travel from one territory to another.
Yeah, an example of a meaning for something that doesn't exist.
Do you support either of the definitions I provided for open borders?
No
The definition that Trump is using is -
"3. A policy in which the party neither cares about people entering the country illegally, nor wants to do anything about it"
He says this is the Democrat policy - he is a pants-on-fire liar. The Dems want no such thing; what they want is an immigration policy that is fair to everyone, and border security that is sophisticated, and up to date for the 21st century, not some dumb, worthless medieval wall that is no more than a vanity project for Dear Leader.
When Obama was president he declared a humanitarian crisis at the border. Very very few took issue with that statement. The major media platforms backed him up. Trump also believes that there is a crisis at the border. There is no debate on whether or not there is a crisis at the border; the debate is whether the US citizens should be concerned for themselves or non-citizens. The answer is the US should be concerned for both.
When Obama was talking about a crisis at the border he was talking about a crisis where people were in physical and emotional distress.
When Trump talks about a crisis at the border, he is talking about too many brown people being allowed to enter the country
Do you know the story of Mexican Texas? While I was visiting the Arch in St Louis they had a slide show that taught me all about it.
A couple hundred years ago, Mexico owned the territory known today as Texas. The Mexican government did not control immigration to this Mexican territory. When Mexico realized that they were loosing this territory to US citizens they enacted a law that forbid US immigrants, but it was too late. A war ensued and Mexico Texas because a US territory and was renamed to Texas (It would have been just as easy for the inhabitants living in this territory to have taken the peaceful route of voting their allegiance to the US. God Bless Democracy).
This is a cautionary tale; the US took ownership of Texas due to Mexico's lack of control of US immigrants into their territory.
This completely transformed the lives of the people whom lived in this territory. Concern for uncontrolled immigration into a country isn't automatically racist or bigoted, sometimes it's a realistic concern that has been proven possible by historical examples.
What are you, a supporter of
"Manifest Destiny"? That is a complete misrepresentation of what actually happened and why it happened.
In the early 1820s, the Mexican government actually
encouraged American emigration into Texas in order to strengthen the economy of the territory and to increase their income from taxes. As large numbers of Americans came to live in Texas, they attempted to create their own power base. The key issue that lead to all the trouble was that those Americas came mostly from nearby southern states, and of course,
they wanted to introduce slavery into a Mexico, a country where slavery was illegal (and that tells us all a bit about which of the two countries was more civilized). The result of this is that Santa Anna tried to become dictator of Texas, and after a number of different groups tried to claim government status, fighting broke out. Americans were hammered and decided to give up, but General Sam Houston kept a small force of troops together and launched a counter-offensive and defeated the Mexican Army. They took Santa Anna prisoner, and forced him to sign documents giving Texas independence.
The Americans still living in Texas were hoping to be annexed by the USA but President Jackson and most northerners were against it as they did not want to annex a new slave territory and thereby increase the Southern votes in Congress.
Texas was a wild and lawless expanse in the 1820's, hence the hiring of experiencedfrontiersmen as lawmen by Land Agent Stephen Austin - those frontiersmen later formally becoming known as Texas Rangers. To even suggest the idea that Mexicans coming to the USA could in any way repeat the Texas scenario is complete and utter hogwash; it tells me that you have little, if any, understanding about this history (as evidenced by your anecdotal tale of learning for the first time about it in a slide show).
