Immigration.

Immigration is when citizens of one country go to another country to live permanently.

The term has gained ever more momentum in the past few years and was one of the primary issues of the last US elections.

For long, countries like the USA have been very open to immigrants and according to Donald Trump, this is the reason for slowed down growth of the United States. He believes that other countries send in only their bad citizens who frequently commit crime.

Although with immigrants holding top positions in top companies, this is hard to comprehend. Nevertheless, Trump has decided to close down the doors for immigration and focus on the native American population.

The US president wants to build a giant wall at the US-Mexico border to stop immigration. Note that this was one big promise he made in his manifesto and Americans supported him on this.

It is clearly evident that the world is retreating to it’s closed nature. Where countries like the USA are selfishly focussed on their own growth first. This is nationalism. It is much the opposite of fancy globalization where borders have little meaning.

Since US is the trendsetter of the world. It would be interesting to see if other countries also start focusing on their growth first and give globalization a back seat. If it turns out this way, then the world will no longer be a small village, it’ll be different planets on a single planet, all trying to outdo others.

War, the most dangerous consequence of de-globalization, also becomes a possibility.

Are we really moving forward and if we are then is this the direction we want to take this world?

I’ll leave that for you to answer.

-ChoubeySahab