Border control is a challenge faced by all modern nations. For instance, Israel’s interior minister is standing firm in refusing to grant status to children born to foreign workers:

It is no secret that if we continue to abandon the borders and allow the entrance of foreigners into the country and don’t – call it what you will – deport, remove or return them to their homelands or if we are too ‘good-natured,’ as too may of us are, in a few years we will find hundreds and thousands of them here, and that is a threat to the Zionist project in Israel. We will lose our country.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army estimates there are 1 million Africans prepared to sneak into Israel for work. The response?

Committee Chairman Ya’acov Katz called upon the defense establishment to begin immediate work on one of the salient features of the proposed project – the erection of an electronic fence along hundreds of kilometers of isolated borderlands with Egypt.

But, as everywhere, farmers are prepared to sacrifice their country’s future to procure cheap harvest labor:

Even as Katz and his committee toured the Negev, farmers in the isolated Arava Valley put the finishing touches on their plans to launch a massive demonstration this coming Sunday to protest cuts to the number of foreign workers that they can employ on their farms.