One thing is sure: good fences make good neighbors.
Open borders has been a huge problem in Europe. Merkel and the EU (at least the cowardly countries that have followed suit and the ones that have drunk the Kool-Aid) have issued an open invitation and rolled out the red carpet to a whole bunch of unvetted riffraff (there are som refugees in there too, but it's mainly riffraff). Western Europe is starting to change irretrievably, some parts of Europe are well on their way to looking like third world countries (including certain parts of Paris), other parts are now no-go zones populated by foreigners who refuse to integrate in Western society, yet receive all sorts of social benefits without contributing. The free circulation of humans across non-existent borders of countries that have lost their sovereignty does not contribute to prosperity or peace, and the US certainly knows that.
By the same token, the US, I think, presents a somewhat different situation. The immigrants from South of the border have a culture which is compatible with the mainstream culture (judeo-christian), and on the whole their purpose is to work and integrate.
As someone who has the privilege of having an insider view on both sides of the pond, I can vouch for that.
All the same, there must be a legal and orderly process to immigration, and when the average American is having a harder and harder time to make ends meet and have their own needs met, it is particularly important to titrate immigration appropriately. Which doesn't mean that effective border control cannot be conducted in a more humane manner than it is now.
Yep. Yet here in the U.S. we have a bunch of Zombies, Sheeple, Social Justice Warriors, or whatever you choose to call them that drink the kool-aid of the legacy media and can't seem to grasp what exactly these things they are pushing for have done to Europe.
It's pretty sad that the majority of places my wife and I once wanted to go on vacation to in Europe and visit I wouldn't go to now.
The places that were formerly under communist control and have lived free since the end of the Soviet Union are the nicest places to visit now in Europe as many of them told Merkel and the unelected oligarchy of the EU a simple word "No!".
They are the only places not being plagued by the results of this crazy ideology.
Now they are either idiots or perhaps they are intelligent and just believe in the vision of Cloward and Piven. Socialism does not work. Universal Basic Income does not work. Governments cannot provide FREE anything, as they produce nothing. They pay for it with taxes which are taken from their citizens. Or with debt owed by their citizens. So there is no FREE from the government.
People buy into this free, guaranteed, stuff from governments and in their magical thinking don't seem to think "How does the government pay for it?". Education: "How do they pay for the books? How do they pay the teachers, or are they simply slaves and not paid?" Healthcare: Same thing, just tools, medicines, and doctors.
If the government is involved there is no FREE. Anything they promise for FREE you'll end up paying for in taxes or debt even if YOU don't need that FREE thing.
Except UBI has worked without taxes for 30 years in Alaska. Derivatives and investments are some things that produce, but who will produce the demand to guard your borders from those undesirables if not for the likes of you, which creates the confusion of preaching anarchist and practicing state paying tax shilling drone.