The descriptive term “illegal alien” gave way to the nebulous “unlawful immigrant,” then “undocumented immigrant,” “immigrant,” or the entirely neutral “migrant” — a noun that obscures whether the individual in question is entering or leaving. Driving the growing outrage in Europe and North America is the ongoing elite push for a borderless world. Undaunted, the Left continues to cherish the vision of a borderless world as morally superior, a triumph over artificially imposed difference. H. G. Wells’ prewar science-fiction novel “The Shape of Things to Come” envisioned borders eventually disappearing as transnational polymaths enforced enlightened world governance. Such fictions prompt fads in the real world, though attempts to render borders unimportant — as, in Wells’ time, the League of Nations sought to do — have always failed.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 31, 2016 12:00 UTC