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> "Due to Brexit" is a simplification, it should be "due to passport control failure" - it's possible to have easy border crossing, it's just that most countries are too inept to implement it.

We used to have an easy border crossing. Then...... Something happened?

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Yes, the thing that has happened, as mentioned in the article, is the treating of ones neighbors, and indeed ones own people, as criminals at the border.

Post-Brexit there is no free movement. This is why Brexit happened. So they could do exactly this. This 'passport control failure' was the intent from the get-go.

There was no "free movement" beforehand either; we weren't part of Schengen.

That's not what "free movement" refers to here. See https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=457&langId=en

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