''There are several interesting things to note about this. The first is the way in which the events of the last year have already shifted the debate on immigration and border control more than anyone might have expected. For more than a generation, governments in the developed West have argued that high levels of immigration into Western countries are a fact of life; migration cannot be stopped altogether even if the governments of the developed countries wanted to do so.
But the events of the last year have shown this to be a lie. In an extreme event — on this occasion a global pandemic — countries around the world have shown that they are able to close their borders. Even Justin Trudeau’s Canada and Angela Merkel’s Germany, which have made a great show in recent years of being open to migration from around the world, did something that nobody could ever (before the pandemic) have expected them to do: they shut the borders and kept them shut.
The public and some wilier politicians will have noticed something here. If it is possible to close the borders to prevent a pandemic, then it should be possible to close the borders to prevent excessive migration. Whether you agree with the policy or not, it has suddenly become a viable option.''
https://unherd.com/2021/05/the-eus-lates...on-crisis/
Tá tendo uma crise política na França pelos desmandos do Macron, enquanto aumenta a pressão para parar a imigração dentro da França. Achei interessante o ponto levantado pelo autor de que a pandemia demonstrou que os governos, para refutar as suas próprias falas anteriores, podem sim fechar suas fronteiras para a imigração, como foram feitas durante a pandemia. De certa forma, é uma consequência boa dessa doença: as ações nacionais tomadas pelo governantes lembraram ao povo e a elite dos países das capacidades nacionais e da função do estado nacional, indo contra a ideia cada vez mais transnacional que se colocava no cenário política mundial pré-pandemia.