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when I was a kid we and we had arguments we would draw a line in the sand and say step over that line and i'm going to knock the smelly stuff out of you.

Borders are lines in the sand. Even some islands have lines in them (Hispaniola, Ireland) others are island collections (Philippines, Japan); others can't even claim their natural water border as belonging to themselves (Azores, etc.) Borders are leftover empires divisions of their own unmerited spoils of conquest. Including the borders of the US and European nation states and the many 'third" world states created from the ruins of those despoiled borders.

A simple reason for open borders, and you actually mentioned quite a few good ones---are they are merely childish bully dares challenging people to cross or not cross non-existent lines that the bullies have drawn to take possession of those they can define as their national serfs.

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