Maybe all this crowing about securing our borders is missing about 200 years of rich context about just how flexible these borders have been. Upworthy’s Alvin Melathe
There is a faction of American society (I’m looking at you, Republicans) who believe that our borders are inflexible and solid. They’re not. At least they haven’t been so historically.
This amazing GIF shows exactly how America became 50 states and that “the borders of the USA that we now recognize as ironclad and immovable are really anything but, and that we should give that more consideration in our public discussion of issues like immigration and who we consider American.” (Upworthy)
You can watch it broken down?frame-by-frame here.
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