Believe it or not, migration is a normal state of the world. Enforcing borders is a fairly recent event, not happening in some areas until post-WWII and/or post-USSR.

So it’s interesting to me to see how poorly migrants are treated world-wide. How similar so many of the problems are. How nativism helps to create a permanent underclass–specifically, violence is used to create a permanent underclass.

Believe it or not, Mr. Nativist–immigrants are not coming to the U.S. to steal your way of life or rape your children. They are coming for jobs.

You want a job, they want a job. When we know the motivations of both sides–can we come up with a better response to border problems than increased militarization?