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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.
1 A state has to be recognized diplomatically by other states. 2  A nation is a group of people who share a set of characteristics. 3  At the core of the concept of a nation is the notion that people having commonalities owe their allegiance to the nation and to its legal representative, the state. In the case of the United States and Canada, the state and nation do not coincide, yet a common identity and nationality is forged over time, even in the absence of religious, ethnic, or cultural similarity. 2  In the United States, national values reflecting commonly held ideas are expressed in public rituals.