The Whole World Is Moving to Secure Its Borders

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Daniel Goure, RCD: The Whole World – Not Just the U.S. – Is Moving to Secure Its Borders

It is a globalized world. A person can circle the earth in 36 hours, and an idea can do the same in 36 minutes. The value of international flows of goods, services and finances is today around $30 trillion a year and could triple by 2025. In 2015, the level of global foreign direct investment topped $1.7 trillion with about 60 percent of that amount going to developed countries. The same year, over $700 billion in cross-border mergers and acquisitions were completed. Applications for international patents, trademarks and industrial designs are all growing at a rapid rate. Annually, the number of international tourists is well over one billion, that of trans-border immigrants now tops 200 million, and the number of students studying abroad is around five million.

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WNU Editor: There are many reasons why countries want to secure its borders .... terrorism and security is one of them. There are also cultural factors at play, as well as economic. My prediction .... what will ultimately force countries (primarily first world countries) to secure their borders will be due to economic reasons. Case in point .... I live in Canada, and in this country the government has just implemented a goal of admitting over one million immigrants in the next 3 years. Housing is already tight and very expensive in this country .... where (and how) are you going to house these people? To put it bluntly .... you cannot .... but it will dramatically increase rents and the cost of homes for existing Canadians. I can also add in how this is going to impact wages (primarily in the service industry), as well as increasing the costs involved in education and health care. And this is all happening under "controlled immigration" and a "secured" border. Bottom line .... most people in the world live in poverty and have little hope to improve their lives because of the country that they live in. The desire to improve one's life is part of the human condition .... and to go where that is possible is what is driving the flow of immigration today. As I have remarked a few times in this blog ... in the case of Europe .... if the current borders and controls were not there .... the Europeans will be facing a million plus immigrants from Africa and the Middle East per month .... and that would be just the beginning.