SiC explains itself to the Left

After the Morning Star published its news report and editorial in favour of Strangers into Citizens, the newspaper received a number of questions and objections. The campaign's policy director, Austen Ivereigh (pictured here speaking on 4 May), has written a detailed article -- 'Bring them in from the cold '-- explaining the SiC proposal, answering the questions and objections, and inviting the Left to support what he calls a 'democratic movement of ordinary citizens engaged in an urgent political struggle on behalf of the vulnerable and voiceless'.

Philosophically, the No Borders position is unobjectionable. In the world as it should be, there would be no frontiers. Some Muslims dream of a restored caliphate, some Catholics are nostalgic for papal Europe before the nation states and some socialists pine for a revolutionary order without frontiers.

But in the world as it is, where democracies coexist with states which regulate rights and responsibilities, there are and will continue to be borders. It is in this world and not a future one that we must negotiate a humane and sensible policy towards the undocumented.