2️⃣0️⃣ The Future We Could Choose

Imagine a world where borders don’t trap potential—they guide it.
Where people move freely to build, to belong, to enrich and be enriched.

Where freedom scales with humanity.
Where growth is shared.
Where opportunity flows across every border.

That world isn’t impossible.
It’s open.

#OpenBorders #GlobalFuture #SharedProsperity #FreedomToMove #HumanPotential #UniversalWealth #20postchallenge

1️⃣8️⃣ We Used to Believe in This

For most of U.S. history, immigration was largely unrestricted.
People arrived with little more than hope—and built prosperity that lifted generations.

Closed borders are the recent, relatively impoverishing experiment.
They stifle the very growth we once embraced.

#OpenBorders #HistoricalPerspective #ProsperityThroughOpenness #GrowthEconomy #MigrationBuiltThis #FreedomToMove #LessonsFromHistory #20postchallenge

1️⃣3️⃣ Wouldn’t Everyone Come?

Only about 10% of people in any generation want to move more than 100 miles.

We’ll never be so lucky that all 10% want to come here.
And refugees? They didn’t choose to leave.

We’re 4.3% of the world’s population.
It would take half of all migrants to double our size.

The pickings are slim.

#OpenBorders #MigrationRealities #GlobalPerspective #FreedomToMove #MobilityAndChoice #PopulationContext #MigrationTruths #20postchallenge

5️⃣ People, Not Problems

Immigration policy often starts with fear.
What if we started with people?

With their dreams. Their skills. Their kids. Their courage.

People aren’t a problem to manage.
They’re potential to welcome.

#OpenBorders #HumanDignity #SeeThePerson #MigrationIsHope #PeopleNotProblems #GlobalHumanity #FreedomToMove #20postchallenge

1️⃣ What if one of the most powerful ways to reduce global poverty, expand opportunity, enrich each individual, and grow the economy… was also one of the simplest?

Let people move.
Let talent go where it’s needed.
Let borders open.

#OpenBorders #MigrationMatters #GlobalJustice #MutualFlourishing #EconomicFreedom #FreedomToMove #UniversalWealth
#20postchallenge

Borders are artificial, the stuff of nations and cops.

In a sacred world, we’d notice ecosystem shifts, like mountains, tree lines, bodies of water, different flora and fauna, or different birds and other critters. We’d ease gently into those moments when we traverse such “divides”—not markers of private property or regimes of social control, but of interrelationality that we respectfully, continually, and voluntarily cultivate. Meaning that we’d engage in myriad forms of reciprocal hospitality when humbly crossing into other bioregions and communities, human and nonhuman, understanding that we make home together, temporarily or for the long haul.

Instead, with profane power, a border guard determines worthiness, or not, to travel from one state to another.

And soon after that, I know I’m in a different place not by a change in this summer’s climate catastrophe weather—the humidity goes on, unabated, labeled with “heat warning”—or even much change in the types of flowers blooming right now. Instead, I know by the stickers spotted on my travel-tired #FuckThePolice walk this evening in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, which bear witness to a colonizer of another tongue, French—though a desire to abolish the police is a relatively universal language, thankfully, as equally witnessed tonight by the English-colonizer-language of #FTP.

#FreedomToMove
#FreedomToReturn
#FreedomToStay
#UntilAllAreFree