It is one of the great marvels of our time that, in a world where governments spend more on border security than ever before, build more miles of border fencing than ever before, deploy more military-grade technology to stop migration than ever before, spend more on detention and deportation than ever before, and knowingly cause thousands of preventable deaths every year by cutting off safe routes to migrate, people in power can look at the disastrous consequences of this system and unironically proclaim: “You know what our problem is? Open borders!”