Myanmar: Why we should secure our borders

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Michael A Clemens

A world without borders makes economic sense. Allowing workers to change location significantly

enriches the world economy. A modest relaxation of barriers to human mobility between countries

would bring more global economic prosperity than the total elimination of all remaining policy

barriers to goods trade - every tariff, every quota - plus the elimination of every last restriction on

the free movement of capital. Those giant walls are a human creation, but cause more than just

human harm: they hobble the global economy, costing the world roughly half its potential

economic product. (Michael A Clemens is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development,

where he leads the migration and development initiative http://www.theguardian.com/global-

development/poverty-matters/2011/sep/05/migration-increase-global-economy
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Brunson McKinley

The movement of people needs to be better managed. The movement of people

across borders is essential in today's globalised world. International business

depends on an international labour force, and the ability of people to move

around the world with ease. However, when managed effectively migration holds

great potential for migrants and for host communities. The ultimate goal is not to

obstruct or prevent mobility but to better manage it for the benefit of all. (Brunson

McKinley is director general of the International Organization for Migration)


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Prof: Binod Khadria

The question of whether we should have open borders is

more a question about the visas barrier countries use for

monitoring the immigration of non-citizens than controlling

the emigration of citizens. The movement of goods and

people are linked. (Professor Binod Khadria is the author of

The Migration of Knowledge Workers.)


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Sir Andrew Green

Given the huge disparities of wealth, open borders would lead to

massive flows of people from the third world to the industrialised

world until conditions there approximated to their home countries.

This would be a recipe for chaos and would be entirely

unacceptable to the inhabitants of the industrialised world. (Sir

Andrew Green is chairman of Migration Watch UK.)


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Mark Krikorian

Borders are essential to nationhood. They are the line between "us" and "them".

Without 'them' there can be no 'us', precluding the possibility of social solidarity.

The analogy to common ownership of property is compelling: if everyone owns

everything, the experience of socialist societies shows us that no one is

responsible for anything. Likewise, if all men have an equal claim to my affections,

without regard to borders, then no man is my brother. Free movement of people is

different from the free movement of goods because people are not goods. (Mark

Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies, Washington DC.)


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This is DHS.

Securing and Managing Our Borders. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has

worked to better mitigate and defend against dynamic threats, minimize risks, and maximize

the ability to respond and recover from attacks and disasters of all kinds. Protecting the

nation's bordersland, air, and seafrom the illegal entry of people, weapons, drugs, and

contraband is vital to our homeland security, as well as economic prosperity. Over the past

several years, DHS has deployed unprecedented levels of personnel, technology, and

resources to the Southwest border. At the same time, DHS has made critical security

improvements along the Northern border, investing in additional Border Patrol agents,

technology, and infrastructure while also strengthening efforts to increase the security of the

nation's maritime borders. (http://www.dhs.gov/securing-and-managing-our-borders)


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This is CBP

Securing our borders. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is responsible for

guarding nearly 7,000 miles of land border the United States shares with Canada

and Mexico and 2,000 miles of coastal waters surrounding the Florida peninsula

and off the coast of Southern California. The agency also protects 95,000 miles of

maritime border in partnership with the United States Coast Guard. To secure this

vast terrain, CBPs U.S. Border Patrol agents, Air and Marine agents, and CBP

officers and agriculture specialists, together with the nations largest law

enforcement canine program, stand guard along Americas front line.

(http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/about/mission/cbp.xml)


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Militarizing Border To accomplish that between US and Mexico border, $46 billion in total will be used

into border security, including:

$30 billion to double the number of Border Patrol agents along the Southern

border, from about 18,000 today to 38,405. That's about 19 agents per mile.

$8 billion to complete and reinforce a 700-mile pedestrian border fence.

$4.5 billion in high-tech surveillance technology, including 24/7 use of unmanned

aerial drones; six "Vader" (Vehicle Dismount and Exploitation Radar) radar systemsdeveloped for the military in Afghanistan; 40 new helicopters; 30 marine vessels;

4,595 unattended ground sensors with seismic, imaging, and infrared capability; 86

towers; and hundreds of cameras, night-vision goggles, fiber-optic inspection

scopes, and mobile surveillance systems.

$1 billion to expand the E-Verify System, a computerized data network that allowsemployers to check the immigration status of potential workers, and build a "photo

tool" that allows a company to match applicants to photos in the U.S Citizenship

and Immigration Services Database.

Development of "fraud-resistant, tamper-resistant, wear-resistant, and identity

theft-resistant social security cards.
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The Examiner The U.S. military should be used to defend our border with Mexico. U.S. combat

troops are used to patrol the borders which define Iraq and Afghanistan. While

protecting the borders of foreign lands has been a priority for both Presidents

Bush and Obama, neither has ever shown a portion of that commitment to their

own country. Illegal aliens account for 29 percent of our total prison population.

Many more Mexican criminals still roam our streets. One million Mexican criminals

is the equivalent to 50 divisions of enemy soldiers within this country. The Mexican

border could and should be made a permanent duty station for U.S. troops. This

would allow the Border Patrol to fully staff the official entry points, which would

dramatically reduce the amount of drugs and number of criminals coming into this

country through those checkpoints on a daily basis. We have the resources to

defend this nation; we need only the political will to do so.


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Theresa May

Living in UK to get tougher for illegal immigrants. They will find it

harder to set up home in the UK under planned laws. The

Immigration Bill would force private landlords to quiz tenants about

their immigration status and restrict access to bank accounts for

people in the country without permission.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24469584
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Mark Harper

The Immigration Bill will stop migrants using public services

to which they are not entitled, reduce the pull factors

which encourage people to come to the UK and make it

easier to remove people who should not be here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24469584
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Express UK

Immigration needs to be controlled as we have run out of room. A series of

government reports last week exposed the horrifying break-up of traditional

Britain. Nearly a third of residents of these cities are members of a non-white

ethnic minority and almost one in 10 homes has not a single person speaking

English as a first language. In large parts of London native English-speakers are in

the minority. Ethnic division is a reality and the problem is getting worse, with 29

million Romanians and Bulgarians potentially to add to the mix next year. Not to

mention 75 million Turks, whose application to join the EU he also enthusiastically

supports. In the next 15 years the UK population will grow by over seven million to

70 million. Five million of that will be due to immigration. The debate was always

about space, not race... and the preservation of England's cultural identity.


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Conclusion

Burma has the population of 60 millions mainly Buddhists. Burma

shares border with China, India, Bangladesh, Laos and Thailand.

Human beings live in the world but they have the different

religions, faiths, perceptions, beliefs, traditions, customs and

languages. We are part of the family of humans but all humans are

not Burmese.

Neither the U.N. nor any country's government has the right to

impose laws or regulations on us. Our entire Constitution

describes how to function as one nation.


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Conclusion

For example, private property has boundaries called property lines. The

property owner is responsible for everything within those lines. No

unauthorized persons have the right to cross over those lines. Likewise, no

unauthorized persons have the right to enter our country. We have a

responsibility to limit how many people may enter. We have the

responsibility to determine whether or not they will be an asset to our

nation.

If I, as a property owner, protect animals on my property, I will prevent a

hunter from trespassing and hunting them. It's the same situation with our

country's immigration laws. If my personal property is so large that I can't

protect it from unwanted people or animals from coming in, then I fence it

off.


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