The new common sense: immigration controls are unsustainable. let's junk them. (Refugees / Open Borders).

From: New Internationalist | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Hayter, Teresa | Copyright information

IMMIGRATION controls are a cruel 20th-century aberration. Although they may seem like common sense, an unavoidable reality, in fact, in most countries they are less than a 100 years old.

International migration, on the other hand, has always existed. Twice as many people migrated from Europe to the rest of the world as have come in the opposite direction. And since the current theory is that human beings originated in East Africa, every other part of the world is the pro...

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