{"id":24849,"date":"2021-08-05T11:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24849"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:32:24","slug":"rebutting-teen-vogue-immigration-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/08\/05\/rebutting-teen-vogue-immigration-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Vogue Indoctrinates Young Americans With Extreme Anti-Borders Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a recent interview, Will Meyer from Teen Vogue<\/a><\/em> promoted a book titled Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders<\/a><\/em>, by journalist Todd Miller. Both the book and the interview are a call for abolishing national borders, and the latter contains many of the main points made in his monograph. Although many of Miller\u2019s ideas may seem fringe, one should not dismiss them because the radicalism they represent has become increasingly mainstream on the left side of the political spectrum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the interview\u2019s introduction, Meyer approvingly invoked \u201cabolitionist\u201d Angela Davis\u2019 assertion that \u201cwalls turned sideways are bridges.\u201d Nowhere is it mentioned that Angela Davis is a lifelong communist<\/a> and that the so-called \u201cabolitionist\u201d received the Lenin \u201cPeace\u201d Prize<\/a> in 1979 from the totalitarian Soviet regime, which ran a police and prison state. This disturbing omission is telling and explains the essence of the rest of the piece, as do Miller\u2019s fond reminiscences about his \u201csolidarity work\u201d during which he visited territories engulfed by the communist Zapatista insurgency<\/a> in southern Mexico during the late 1990s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller condemns borders as a \u201cconstant human rights\nviolation,\u201d claiming that \u201cthe border plays a role in maintaining systems of\ninjustice. And, for this reason \u2026 it needs to be eliminated.\u201d Thus, even his\npraise for Biden executive orders reversing Trump policies is tempered by the\nview that the new administration has not gone far enough in dismantling the\nborder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller and Meyer both complain about wealthy countries responding to \u201cclimate change\u201d by building border walls. This allows rich Western capitalist countries \u2013 and the \u201cneoliberal project\u201d in particular \u2013 to poison \u201cthe atmosphere with greenhouse gas emissions\u201d while the poor in the Global South pay the price. In reality, according to a study<\/a> by the Center for Immigration Studies, \u201cimmigrants increase their emissions four-fold by coming to America.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion then pivots to general arguments about immigration, with Miller claiming that \u201c[s]tudies show that undocumented communities are safer \u2026 and help debunk the myth that immigrants bring criminality into the United States.\u201d In reality, FAIR has shown<\/a> the opposite is true. Miller also brushes aside economic arguments against mass migration, declaring them \u201ccomical\u201d and stating that mass migration boosts the Gross Domestic Product (GDP),\u201d while forgetting that GDP increases by themselves are not a sufficient gauge for determining standards of living. He also ignores the fact that some may be making money off of mass migration while others \u2013 U.S. taxpayers in particular \u2013 are stuck with a growing bill<\/a>. Finally, Miller asserts that \u201cthe counterarguments are pretty thin unless your argument is racist.\u201d While mass-migration advocates like Miller are often obsessed with race, the truth is that illegal immigrants come from hundreds of different countries and make up numerous different races and ethnicities. Those who wish to see our immigration laws enforced do not suggest that they only be enforced against people of a certain race or ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then displays his historical ignorance by claiming that borders are a relatively recent concept and the result of the Berlin Conference (1884-1885), when some European powers carved up Africa, drawing borders that frequently \u201ccut through Indigenous territory, where people shared traditions, languages \u2026.\u201d In reality, borders go back many centuries. For instance, the Roman Empire\u2019s borders were in some places fortified to keep out raiding and plundering tribes. And, in the Middle East, as one historian points out<\/a>, during the \u201cearly Christian era,\u201d the \u201cPersians \u2026 even quarreled with their eastern neighbors on matters of boundary pillars and border rivers.\u201d In fact, one of the oldest documented examples of an established border dates to the seventh century BC, when the Great Wall of China was created to protect the northern border of ancient Chinese states from various foreign nomadic groups. Furthermore, the Hebrew book of Exodus, which was authored around 600 BC or earlier<\/a>, also contains many descriptions of national borders. Borders have existed for essentially all of recorded civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interviewee\u2019s claim that borders are \u201ca direct result of colonialism and maintain a neo-colonial worldview\u201d ignores the historic struggles of many nations against foreign invaders to achieve or reclaim independent statehood and establish sovereign borders. One need only consult the modern history of Poland<\/a>. In essence, Miller\u2019s view on borders reflects sheltered Western privilege. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The assertion that \u201c[b]orders are unnatural\u201d and \u201cdivisive\u201d also crumbles when subjected to even a minimal level of analysis. As Canadian clinical psychologist Professor Jordan Peterson<\/a> explained, borders and boundaries are both natural and reasonable \u2013 at the individual, societal, and national levels \u2013 for their absence would breed unbearable chaos and anarchy. And, in his book, The Virtue of Nationalism<\/em>, Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony<\/a> made the point that a world without borders is much more likely to be a tyrannical and oppressive global empire than a utopia of universal brotherhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller concludes by linking down-with-borders extremism with another radical pet project, the abolition of prisons, claiming that in a \u201cworld of justice\u201d both prisons and borders would \u201cfall.\u201d Of course, places that set out to establish such egalitarian Marxist utopias<\/a> ironically ended up using borders \u2013 the very thing Miller despises \u2013 to turn their entire countries into huge prisons and keep their own people from escaping the oppression and starvation that occurred instead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent interview, Will Meyer from Teen Vogue promoted a book titled Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders, by journalist Todd Miller. Both the book and the interview are a call for abolishing national borders, and the latter contains many of the main points made in his monograph. Although<\/p>\n

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