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Donald Trump and other immigration restrictions argue that we must restrict migration because a nation cannot exist without borders. This oft-heard claim is false. Borders serve many other functions besides restricting migration. And nations - including the US for much of its history - have often existed without restricting peaceful migration.
The ideal of 'nation-state' is that the state incorporates people of a single ethnic stock and cultural traditions 2. However, most contemporary states are polyethnic. Thus, it can be argued that the nation-state [...] would exist if nearly all the members of a single nation were organised in a single state, without any other national communities being present. Although the term is widely used, no such entities exist 3. The nation as we think of it today is a product of the nineteenth century. In modern times nation is recognised as 'the' political community that ensures the legitimacy of the state over its territory, and transforms the state into the state of all its citizens.