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Open Borders Are a Death Sentence to Western Nations
American Thinker ^ | 13 Jul, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 07/13/2026 4:39:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Governments have refused to respect the wishes of their citizens.

As simmering conflicts between Western citizens and Western governments boil over the next few years, we must never forget how we got to this point: Elected officials and irremovable bureaucrats occupying permanent administrative roles have refused to respect the wishes of the citizens whom they ostensibly represent and serve.

From the United States to the United Kingdom, citizens have demanded that their governments secure national borders and end the steady flow of illegal aliens into their communities. From France, the Netherlands, and Germany to Australia and New Zealand, citizens have demanded that their governments arrest and remove Islamic immigrants who are guilty of rape, murder, or other violent crimes. With the exception of President Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration law and deport illegal alien criminals (despite formidable resistance from the courts, leftist NGOs, and Establishment politicians from both the Democrat and Republican Parties) in the United States, no Western official has done anything to remedy the scourge of unlawful mass invasion in a deliberate, meaningful, and effective way. Instead, Western governments hide from their citizens the true number of illegal immigrants living among them. Western governments hide from their citizens a full accounting of the crimes committed by foreign nationals who should never have been permitted entry in the first place.

Mass illegal immigration is not a new problem. In the United States, President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act into law in 1986. Defended by both political parties as a way of combating illegal immigration while providing long-term lawbreakers legal status, it effectively awarded millions of foreign nationals amnesty. Politicians convinced the American people to support this trade-off: In return for citizens’ reluctantly permitting the government to reward the unlawful behavior of foreign immigrants

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1 posted on 07/13/2026 4:39:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The politicians who did this belong in prison.


2 posted on 07/13/2026 4:40:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I try to tell the open border libertarians this and they can’t understand it.


3 posted on 07/13/2026 4:40:40 AM PDT by Jonty30 (A quiet man is a thinking man. A quiet woman is angry.)
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Just send the illegal invaders home. Kindly, humanely but promptly.

However, the bureaucrats who facilitated this through non-profits, and broke our laws, must be prosecuted.


4 posted on 07/13/2026 4:44:03 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Jonty30

They’re too stoned.


5 posted on 07/13/2026 4:45:57 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: The_Media_never_lie; MtnClimber

Yes. Evil people may come in. Some will tell you. Open the borders, destroy your civilization.


6 posted on 07/13/2026 4:52:27 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: MtnClimber

Legal immigration needs to stopped for 50 years.


7 posted on 07/13/2026 5:07:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: MtnClimber
… In the United States, President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act into law in 1986. Defended by both political parties as a way of combating illegal immigration while providing long-term lawbreakers legal status, it effectively awarded millions of foreign nationals amnesty. Politicians convinced the American people to support this trade-off: In return for citizens’ reluctantly permitting the government to reward the unlawful behavior of foreign immigrants…

The deal was: grant amnesty and Congress and the administrative state would secure the borders against illegal immigration. That did not happen. Amnesty was granted and Congress and the administrative state refused to do what was needed to secure the borders. Illegals still kept streaming through.

8 posted on 07/13/2026 5:18:14 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MtnClimber

Canada’s Trudeau started filling Canada with the third world but Carney now Canada’s Prime Minister was Trudeau’s adviser so was it Carney that started it ? Now Carney is Carney’s adviser ,LOL


9 posted on 07/13/2026 5:24:57 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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"Open Borders Are a Death Sentence to Western Nations"

Yes. The honest and intelligent know this at a glance.

The rest have to try it to find out.

The stupid are the curse of the intelligent.

10 posted on 07/13/2026 5:38:03 AM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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The politicians who Continue to do this may deserve something a bit more severe than just prison. After seeing what unlimited immigration does to a country, some still cry out for it. These are the ones(not all are politicians)who need to be leaned on a bit harder than just imprisonment. Not suggesting just what this punishment should be, but by now it should be very evident to all that open borders will surely ruin any country. There are just too many “bad apples” running loose in the world today.


11 posted on 07/13/2026 5:39:13 AM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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The West used to have open borders in the 1800s. We had the same issues with the native population worrying about the change of character of the country from the new immigrants. But we did not have a Welfare State. What is suicide is an open borders Welfare State. That is absolutely insanely suicidal. Politicians used to tell the lie that immigrants worked and did not go on Welfare. Maybe that was the case 60 or 70 years ago but today’s immigrants go on Welfare. The evidence is overwhelming. Import the world and have your taxpayers pay for them to sit around and collect a check.


12 posted on 07/13/2026 5:39:28 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To all of the left who yell that we're a democracy, not a republic, and who are open borders as well, this article has this salient statement:

No American ever voted for this radical transformation. No politician or government bureaucrat respected American citizens enough to seek their consent.

13 posted on 07/13/2026 5:39:33 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.
Proverbs 25:28


14 posted on 07/13/2026 5:39:54 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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“The politicians who did this belong in prison.”

I agree, but not for letting in the ‘refugees’, but instead for letting women vote. I’ll never forget the airport scenes where they were coming in with fists raised (all fight-aged men) and the women there, greeting them, were saying (or at least thinking), “Welcome to Germany, you poor men, you’re safe now, nothing to worry about anymore”.

Would not be so bad, except they also vote. If our civilization dies, it will be because the men let the women vote in our civilization, but not in the civilizations that defeated us.


15 posted on 07/13/2026 5:50:08 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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It seems to take about 1-2 generations to destroy a culture of freedoms when dealing with muslim and arab cultures. They seem to have one goal and it’s to instill their failed culture replacing new cultures with failed governments. Appears the Brits have let arabs and muslims take away their beautiful cultures. France and America are next in line for destruction if the French and Americans are not careful. Dems are on the move in Europe and the USA.


16 posted on 07/13/2026 5:51:25 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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Former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino has said repeatedly that there are more than one hundred million illegal aliens residing in the United States.

If this is true, this country is as finished as the UK.

17 posted on 07/13/2026 6:01:11 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: central_va

Yes a moratorium is needed.

Elites think a nation is nothing but invisible lines on a map. In fact Americans, English, Japanese , Ugandans are all unique and not interchangeable like bolts and nuts in a machine.


18 posted on 07/13/2026 6:02:07 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: MtnClimber

“Open Borders Are a Death Sentence to Western Nations”

The title reads as all you need to know on the topic.

Everything flows down after that clear statement of truth.


19 posted on 07/13/2026 6:05:54 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: Sicon
Well, optimistically, Bovino is exaggerating, trying to get people's attention away from... whatever...

It's really only 99,999,999.

20 posted on 07/13/2026 6:10:16 AM PDT by OKSooner (The most hated and despised man holding office in America is crying all the way to the bank. )
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