The people who lived in a country are there by birth or by immigration. The first one people can’t pick or choose, but the later one most of the people can choose. Sometimes though, it might not be a free choice or a choice that the people would do voluntarily. For example, if a person is running away from a war, he/she could be heading to anywhere safe, whether the destination is California or Oslo.

The country is made up of the people living in it and the geographical landmass that makes up the area of the planet that are called cities, countries, continents. What does then the people in the country say about the country and vice versa what does the people say about the country? If there’s a person who comes to a country from a war torn place with nothing and starts a new life in the other country, what can the country expect from him/her?

In my opinion there’s now a heated discussion around the world on how many people should be taken in to a country and how the people taken in should behave and live. This is obvious of course, but the more deeper question is; why are the people that happen to be born in the country in a place of control on who will get in? Just because someone has been born in certain place of the world automatically makes him/her more right to the land?

One could argue that there are two different sides of this argument; in one hand the people who think that man made borders are just that “man made” and have nothing to do with the people as a whole – I have heard opinions saying that just because someone has a control of a certain piece of land doesn’t make it just to stop people moving in and out of that land and that the land itself cannot be bought, sold or owned. On the other hand, there are people who say that the borders are there to make cities, states, countries and that they are there to bring order and keep the nationalities separate – implying that, we (the people) as a whole, are not all the same.

This all boils down to a scale of who has the right. If you have lived all your life in the country, do you have more right to say who can be let in? In oppose to that person who has lived in the country for few years – possibly just received his/hers citizenship. Or what about a person who has been born in the country, moved away young, but is now coming back to retire in the country? Is that person more or less a valid citizen of the country and where does he/she fit in the scale. Ultimately, these kinds of scales are being done all over the world and everyone seems to want to have their say on the matter.

What do you think? Is there a right or wrong on this issue? Who has the ultimate authority to decide and what happens to those who oppose? We seem to be in a cross roads and only time will tell what will happen.