“Where does the authority to draw or enforce a border come from?” we asked. The authority invoked to enforce the borders of Australia and the United States (or any other nation) is by no means “natural,” morally justifiable, or historical. Such authority is, rather, based on and upheld by the gun of the border guard and the black robe of the immigration judge.
Now that we have crawled through the history of violence in the past, is the conclusion that since the borders we have in most rich countries today were violently acquired that their should be no borders today? Since white people came in violently and closed the borders violently, we should open the borders to everyone now? So no country today has the right to enforce border control because their fathers came in here violently? Is this a valid argument?
