Western media has a habit of speaking about refugees and the conflicts that create them in isolated terms: “the European refugee crisis,” “the Syrian refugee
Just south of San Diego and north of the Mexican city of Tijuana, a 52-mile long line of fence cuts across the landscape. From the ground, the
My mother has always had that grating kind of Jersey accent. Her voice is loud, rising and dropping in strange places, drawls seamlessly morphing into
Tired and broken you come to us on Fox as you do in boats too small for the weight of lives they ferry. tell me this
When Lauren Jacobs was seven, she went grocery shopping with her dad. A stranger, in seeing her interact with her father, attempted to make sense of their
“Well, I’m a bit of a nomad.” That was my 22-year-old cousin’s response the last time I heard someone ask where she was from. If they had asked me,
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Every April 7, United We Dream, America’s largest nonpartisan youth-led immigration organization, hosts National Institutions Coming Out Day. According to their website, the event “encourage[s] educators to
It is hard to open the pages of a newspaper or magazine today without being confronted by news of the refugee crisis. “More than one million refugees cross into Europe!”
On the day he formally announced his candidacy for president, Bernie Sanders put the country on notice: “Don’t underestimate me,” he said in an interview with ABC News. He was
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