Pessimistic Americans fail to see the dream that migrants chase
Journalists converged on the southern U.S. border two weeks ago in search of yet another crisis. The end of Title 42′s border policy, a covid-era mechanism for automatically expelling asylum seekers back to Mexico, was supposed to provoke a surge in migrant crossings. When those masses did not materialize, everyone was left asking where the crisis was.
Perhaps it was not the right question. Perhaps they should have asked where the border actually lies, what it actually is — and what it represents to the men, women and children who go to great pains to traverse it in pursuit of a dream many Americans no longer seem to be able to recognize.… Seguir leyendo »
