You are welcome. Yes, all of you.

1400 African immigrants have arrived to the Canary islands recently, and there seem to be more and more of them coming.

Let them come.

One of the things future generations are probably going to loathe us for, in the same way as we loathe the Romans for deadly gladiator battles, is border controls.

Morally, it is very difficult to argue for locking people out from certain parts of this planet, just because they lack the right country name on the cover of their passport. Why should someone from Boston have a better right to move to Los Angeles than someone from Tijuana?

When you are born into a citizenship, certain things can be extremely difficult to change in your life. Those of us who are happy enough to be born with a EU passport have the enormous privilege to move to any other country within the European Union. But what makes me, Mr. Agno, more suitable for this than Mr. Tanaka, 田中さん, who was born with a Japanese passport? What have I as an individual done to deserve it? And what has Mr. Tanaka personally done not to deserve it?

There is no moral right to exclude anyone here - just a traditional right, and as traditions change, this one will certainly do so too.

But what about the practical implications? What about all those millions of poor people who will come and live next door to us?

If we open all borders to all humans tomorrow, things will certainly change. However, there is a very common misunderstanding that "foreign countries" or at least "poor countries" are horrible places to be in. They are not (for the most part). There are happy people everywhere. There are sad people everywhere. There are rich and there are poor. There are people of all kinds.

If we open all borders tomorrow, things will change, but not as dramatically as most people seem to assume. Things will not change more than what we can adapt to.

In the economically poor world, things will change for the better. Unemployed people will be able to move to where they can get decent jobs. Rich people in the poor countries will get it much easier to travel and spend their money for the benefit of the tourism industry everywhere. And as people easily can move back and forth between countries, it will be much easier to get a common agreement on how the world shall be run.

Isn't all that just an unrealistic dream? May be so, but it is a beautiful dream.