Migration is all over the news, with calls to build a wall with Mexico and restrict immigration.

Meanwhile, nations around the world are pouring money into policing their borders,

while a global black market smuggles people across them for money.

I'm Anne Strange Champs, and today, unto the best of our knowledge,

something about this just doesn't make sense.

What if there was another way?

My dangerous idea is that borders are a thing of the past.

Artist and activist Molly Crabapple.

What we're seeing now with the Syrians and the Afghans and the Eritreans risking their lives to come to Europe is about war

and it's about poverty, but it's not just about that. It's about something else, something bigger.

We live in a time when we can communicate with anyone in the world. In our hands, we hold phones

that have the sum total of human knowledge

that give us this gnostic and bodily power to see anywhere and speak to anyone, anywhere,

regardless of borders. And yet, our identities are chained more than ever to borders. We, in the

first world, we with the lucky blue passports, we carry passports that have chips in them.

Everything about us is tracked.

Borders are these spaces that are so militarized.

And it's all about dividing the rich world from the poor world.

But the thing is that in a time when people's minds can go anywhere, people's bodies cannot be chained in this way.

People will no longer respect the idea that borders were sacrosanct.

And in fact, the idea of a border being sacrosanct is a very, very, very modern invention.

So let's say, you know, you're someone like a young Syrian engineer that I met in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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