"Colonial powers imagined a world with no borders they were bound to respect beyond those that other colonial powers could enforce ... Nations like the Tohono O'odham, whose land was sliced through by the U.S. border, had and have no power to keep out the forces of the bigger, better-armed state."
TruthoutWhat borders are mostly protecting is stolen wealth and stolen land and the insecurity that comes with knowing that the theft was unjust.