• Zaktor
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    10 months ago

    The US doesn’t have open borders and most borders in the world have no barriers at all. I’m not sure where you’ve got walls all along your border such that you think it’s normal.

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        10 months ago

        They’re saying other countries are all walled up, which is also complete nonsense.

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          10 months ago

          Lol there’s no forts if that’s what you have in mind. But there’s border controls and limited walls where people hit the border. If people start entering illegally they extend the walls as needed.

          Recent examples would be Colombia, Finland and Greece

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            10 months ago

            Here’s an image with marks for the border barriers throughout the world from the Economist around Trump’s election. You’ll notice how most borders don’t have them. No one is saying no barriers exist, but they are not the norm. The US had some before Trump and the presence or absence of border fences has nothing to do with whether a border is “open”.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve gone overland from Singapore to Paris and from Alaska to Argentina and a lot of other travel and I’ve only ever been able to just walk over the border in two places (Paraguay/brazil and iran/Pakistan)

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        10 months ago

        That you didn’t hike into the wilderness to find the unfenced border has nothing to do with whether those crossings existed. The US also has border barriers around regular road crossings and tourists, like yourself, just use those places.