On the 5th July 2005, three days after the Make Poverty History March at the G8 demonstrations in Edinburgh, there was a demo at the Dungavel Removal Centre for asylum seekers in Lanarkshire. We covered Dungavel in our August 2003 issue. The demo was under the slogan: "Open Borders. Close Dungavel". Unlike the previous demonstration in September 2003, this demo was trying to piggyback on the huge numbers that were attending the anti-G8 events, from all over the world. Thus the organisers thought they might get upwards of 5,000 people. In the event they got a derisory 600-700, which was confirmed to us personally by Strathclyde police the next day. As we said in our August 2003 issue, the aim of the organisers is to make immigration law in Britain unworkable and unenforceable on route to abolishing immigration law entirely. This time round, the organisers were quite clear about their aim to force "Open Borders". A brief critique of this lawless and anarchistic policy is sorely needed, and below we seek to provide it.

Alistair McConnachie

The following article by Alistair McConnachie appeared in the June 2005 issue of Sovereignty

"Freedom of movement is a basic human right"

You may think you have the right to walk through my front door. But I have the right to keep it locked, or to tell you to leave if I don't want you around. Similarly, I have as much right to say who comes into my country as to say who comes into my home.

"A world without borders. What's wrong with that?"

What's right about it? Borders are everywhere and necessary -- whether it is national borders, or my front door. Every individual and every nation has a perfect right to set borders and to defend those borders. Borders mean self-defence. To say we should have "Open Borders" or "No Borders" is to attack the very idea of self-defence, and the right of all people, everywhere, to defend themselves.
The concept of "Open Borders" or "No Borders" is a complete denial of my right, or a People's right, to exist as a self-determining individual, community or nation.

"We're anti-globalists, we don't believe in borders"

Some anti-globalisation protestors say, quite rightly, that communities and nations should have the right to protect themselves against global capital and corporations. That is done by setting borders -- political and economic borders. It is contradictory for these same people to say that there should be no borders limiting human movement.
And consider this: If millions of rich, white Europeans were moving into African countries, would these protestors be advocating the right of rich, white people to move into Africa? Of course not! This suggests they are only for dismantling the borders of Europe, which suggests they are anti-white racists, or self-hating white people.

"Migration and asylum-seeking is a consequence of economic exploitation,
political repression and war"

Then the priority should be to correct the problem at source rather than ignore it. If your home is in need of repair, you should fix it. If your house is collapsing, you don't solve the problem by moving into mine.
And if I let you in, I expect you to mend your house in the meantime and move back when it's finished.

"Immigration control is inherently discriminatory"

Either you believe in immigration control or you do not. If you believe in any kind of immigration control, then you must discriminate and choose between different people. There's no difference, in principle, between discriminating a little, a lot, or totally. It is still discriminating -- only a question of degree. Choosing to limit immigration to any level, means engaging in some kind of discrimination.
As Jared Taylor explained in his speech in May 2005, Open Borders people believe in the myth of the equivalence of all human beings -- the myth that "we are all equal".
Thus, they advocate the complete abolition of borders rather than risk discriminating at all.

"We need immigrants and asylum seekers for the economy"

Open-border anarchists -- which includes a broad range of people from neo-con free marketeers and libertarians to wholly-minded liberals and extreme Trotskyites -- will regularly attempt to excuse levels of mass immigration and "asylum seeking" on the grounds that such people are necessary to fill a "skills gap".
Of course, many of them couldn't care less whether immigrants contribute to the economy. For example, the Scottish Socialist Party regularly makes this argument out one side of its mouth -- while calling for the "destruction of capitalism" out the other!
Moreover, it is not true that such people are needed for the economy. That's a complete inversion of the principle that the economy must serve the people.
The people are not here to serve the economy. The economy will adjust to the population. In any case, within the EU, any company seeking a person with a specific skill, is free to source any EU citizen. If a company cannot fill a post that way, then it's free to hire people from anywhere in the world, through normal channels.
It is absurd, therefore, to imagine that companies need to source "skills" specifically from illegal immigrants and refugees -- "asylum-seekers", as such, are not allowed to work.
To the extent that illegals and refugees find jobs, they, like many of the legal immigrants from Eastern Europe, are not filling a "skills gap", they are filling a wages gap -- and keeping labour costs low, often on the black market. To the extent that "asylum seekers" have something to offer, their "talent" would be better spent making their own countries more liveable, and maybe even taking care of the women, children and elderly these young men have left behind in their rush to "escape persecution".
The Open Border anarchists are always inventing new-fangled excuses for the present levels of immigration because they really just want to abolish all borders anyway. At least, with this new Dungavel demo, they're now coming out openly and admitting it.

FRAMING the OPEN-BORDER ANARCHISTS as the
ANTI-BRITISH RACISTS and NATION-WRECKERS they ARE

A world without borders is a license for political, social and criminal anarchy. So who would advocate such lawlessness?
Granted, many are just liberal hangers-on who haven't thought it through. Others are easily duped by an appeal to their moral vanity or may relish the opportunity to -- as they see it -- preen themselves morally in front of others.
To them we say: It is irresponsible and vain to treat the issues of immigration and asylum as an opportunity to morally preen yourself in public, or to feed your misguided moral vanity!

However, the leadership of these people in Scotland is a hard core of Trotskyites based around the SSP, and certain Trade Union, and NGO groups. They have got off with their lethal self-righteous and self-serving sanctimony for far too long.
And when they start parading their butts in public under the banner, "Open Borders: Close Dungavel" then the time for polite conversation, at least with them, is over.
It's time they were put on the defensive and made to justify themselves. Their Open Borders policy means, eventually, the end of Scotland and Britain as distinct nations of European people.

OPEN BORDERS is an ANTI-BRITISH, EXTREMIST POLICY

The people who advocate Open Borders will destroy Scotland and Britain. They are anti-Scotland and anti-Scottish racists. They are anti-Britain and anti-British racists. They are working for the death of Scotland and Britain. They are totally opposed to the best interests of the indigenous Scottish and British people.
The present scale of mass immigration and "asylum-seeking" is murdering our country, and those who call for "Open Borders" are guilty, regardless of which side of the political or social spectrum they fall. The people who advocate Open Borders are nation wreckers.

They are nation killers. And if their liberal hangers-on don't like being called those things, then they need to shut up, back off, and get out the way.