What is a border? (And what is freedom?)
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2023-10-14

The violent and oppressive effects of borders, the relation between borders and racism and who has a stake in making us racist, who profits from borders, why arguments against immigration are excuses, and why immigration is moving and should be treated as such.

0:27 Why immigration is an issue
7:46 Borders are everywhere
9:42 Borders exist in the mind
11:26 The empty rhetoric
17:50 The system makes us racist
24:39 Why do people move?
28:49 You could be the next refugee

Links: 

Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia (I suggest accessing this and all other books I cite on this channel through Z-Library. You can sign up here: https://singlelogin.me/registration.php)

Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones

The Psychology of Nationalism by Joshua Searle-White

The EU gives billions of euros to North African states to do their dirty work of Frontex border enforcement: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-refugees-recipe-for-crisis-and-chaos-in-the-mediterranean/, https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-militarize-africa-senegal-borders-anti-migration-surveillance  

Refugees who have died due to Fortress Europe policies: https://unitedagainstrefugeedeaths.eu/about-the-campaign/about-the-united-list-of-deaths/

Video of Greek border guards abandoning migrants at sea: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/world/europe/greece-migrants-abandoned.html 

A brief history of US imperialism in Central America and its results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htlHGdRB4Ug&t=1176s 

Why the War on Drugs was never going to work: https://menso.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/prohibiting-a-market-does-not-mean-destroying-it/ 

US Border Patrol use the desert as a weapon to kill migrants: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/07/report-us-border-patrol-desert-weapon-immigrants-mexico 

Thousands of kids were separated from their parents at the border under Trump: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/03/23/family-separation-timeline 

Syrian refugees come to the aid of disaster victims: https://globalnews.ca/news/2684980/i-know-what-these-people-feel-syrian-refugees-help-fort-mcmurray-wildfire-evacuees/, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/5/syrian-refugees-help-flood-victims-in-germany-2

Why (American) conservatives hate immigrants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQAOZuEEo-g 

Borders are apartheid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKxiGC0xBuA

A transcript of this video is available at https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/what-is-a-border-and-what-is-freedom/