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1. Let’s make it clear for those who pretend not to understand: the decision to migrate has nothing to do with the existence or absence of a wall, a border fence, of militarised cops or subcontracted militias in the oceans. 
2. Building walls, putting up fences, doing pushbacks and funding slave-trading militias as border guards does not stop migration. It only determines its path and the degree of danger of the journey.
3. Men, women and children do not abandon their place of birth on the basis of the existence of a wall, a fence, an ocean. The existence (or absence) of such difficulties does not change the dismal conditions in which they find themselves.
4. The existence of a wall or a fence does not change the poverty, deprivation, lack of prospects, the bombs falling on their houses and their heads.
5. The building of walls & fences does not affect the lack of economic development, it does not affect the de-agrarianization and deindustrialisation that has shaped the places where they come from since the 1980s. It does not reverse the ‘lost decades’.
6. As those in charge know better than anyone, there is no “rising Africa”, there is no economic miracle, there is no export engine of growth, there is no reduction of poverty due to the wonders of globalisation. Quite the opposite:
7. The building of walls and fences and slave-trading militias that stop migrants does not change the fact that the interest rate hikes of the Fed makes debt servicing in the Global South impossible and deep recession and economic disaster unavoidable.
8. The building of walls and fences does not stop wars. Walls and fences and border guards do NOTHING to stop a climate catastrophe that burns through the Global South.
9. Walls, fences and pushbacks are there to hide the conscious decision to disregard international law. Walls and fences and border guards ensure that those forced to leave their disgraced and burnt down places of origin will risk their lives or die in the process.
10. Walls and fences and guards do not deter those forced to migrate. They murder them.
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