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No, we should keep our borders
Borders protect nation-states and ensure that governments can take care of their citizens. The cultural and economic gains possible from open borders are not worth the safety and economic risks that will occur if people freely migrate between nation-states.
Supporting arguments · 4
- Opening borders is like removing the doors from your homeWhen we put locks on our doors and fences around our home, we do so with the intention of protecting what we have created. A country has a culture that supports what it created, and borders help to protect that.
- Getting rid of borders would destroy cultureBorders maintain cultural heritages that stretch back through history, and cultures are worth protecting. Eliminating borders would mean losing cultural identity and heritage.
- Open borders will endanger citizens' safetyThere are many criminals and terrorists in other countries who would move to richer countries if they could. Abolishing borders would threaten countries' national security.
- Countries cannot economically or politically sustain open bordersOpening all borders would result in everyone migrating to richer, safer countries. These countries do not have the societal infrastructure to sustain the influx of immigrants.