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I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.

These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.

I want to add something, but I’d just be restating what they said. I.. didn’t know peace and kindness like this was possible.

You need to think of it like states in the US. 

The EU has removed almost all border controls within the EU with beautiful ideological purposes of ‘never having war in Europe again’ and it is indeed beautiful, but the sad truth is they replaced it by forcing the countries on the edges of Europe to maintain ever harsher more deadly borders to keep out refugees. 

The inner borders of Europe show only half of the picture. The borders inside the EU look like the above. The borders on the edges of the EU look like this: