National borders in the moral maze

Is it immoral to encourage mass migration or to seek to limit it?

Michael Buerk, our unflappable guide through the weekly moral maze

On the latest edition of BBC Moral Maze, my co-panellists and I discussed the morality of maintaining and enforcing national borders.

The government has persistently failed to stop the small boats bringing thousands of “asylum-seekers” to British shores from France in illegal people-smugg…