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- Mario Alberto Castelán Floresje podelio/la utisakпре 4 године
👍Vredna čitanja💡Poučna🚀Čita se u jednom dahuIt leaves me with so many new ideas about which is one's place in the world. And oh so angry with scientist who let themselves be guided by his bias and how many politicians took those ideas to heart.
I see, more and more how the real constant is change
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- Mario Alberto Castelán Floresje citiraoпре 4 годинеIf the fever of xenophobia evolved as a kind of immune defense, perhaps it once helped protect us. It is no longer useful for that purpose. Modern medicine provides us with the insights and technology we need to protect ourselves from pathogens, whether we shun strangers or not. Still, the vestigial impulse to suspect outsiders lingers, lodged deep in our psyches. Politicians can harness its heat simply by pointing to a border between “us” and “them.”
- Mario Alberto Castelán Floresje citiraoпре 4 годинеIn Ohio, immigration officials scooped up a businessman and deported him to Jordan. He had been living in the United States for nearly forty years and had raised four daughters. He left the country with nothing more than the clothes on his back and a few hundred dollars in his pocket. In Connecticut, they picked up a couple and deported them to China. They’d lived in the United States for nearly two decades and had been running a local nail salon. They had to leave their five-year-old and fifteen-year-old sons behind. In Iowa, a teenager who’d lived there since the age of three was deported to Mexico. He was murdered shortly after arriving.
While previous administrations had captured and deported migrants living in the interior of the country before, they’d primarily targeted those who’d been convicted of crimes. In a single year, the number of migrants living in the interior who’d been arrested shot up by 40 percent. The majority had no criminal convictions at all. Their sole violation consisted of a lack of valid immigration documents - Mario Alberto Castelán Floresje citiraoпре 4 годинеof the world’s migrants move from one developing country to another, that is, between countries where the range of available public services varies little.
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