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| Migrant parent and child. Image source. |
Here's another quote from "The Case for Open Borders". From page 217:
Draconian immigration enforcement measures don't do much better than walls. In one of the most drastically anti-human immigration policies in recent years, the Trump administration ripped thousands of children away from their parents in an attempt to punish and dissuade more families from trying to cross the border. And yet, in the immediately following months of implementing that heinously cruel policy, more families crossed the border than in preceding months. That's because they were fleeing crushing poverty, deadly violence, and utter hopelessness in their home countries. They were doing what anybody would do-- seek dignity and safety-- and neither the wall nor Trump's anti-immigrant barking kept them at home.
As poet Warsan Shire writes in "Home":
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark...you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
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