Closing the border is not about stopping poor people. It’s about forcing failing states to change.
Closing the border is not about stopping poor people. It’s about forcing failing states to change.
People will always seek a better life and better opportunities.
But if developed countries continue absorbing migrants, failing states will never have to pay the price for their own failures. Corrupt governments, weak institutions, and failing education systems can survive because dissatisfied citizens always have an escape route.
A well-enforced border reverses that dynamic. When people can no longer leave so easily, pressure returns to where it belongs: their own governments. To keep their citizens, governments must create jobs, fight corruption, improve education, strengthen security, and grow their economies, or face increasing public resistance.
This is also a form of institutional natural selection. Over time, better-governed countries retain their people, while poorly governed ones are forced to reform. As governance improves, migration declines and national borders regain their meaning.
Illegal immigration will never end as long as failing states can continue exporting the consequences of their own failures to other countries.
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