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For a long time America was a country whose borders were more open than anywhere else: “Give me your weary masses, your poor / enslaved who yearn to breathe freely,” he says at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Immigration has been the cornerstone of America. Until President Donald Trump destroyed it.
In four years in office, he systematically sealed the United States. On the border with Mexico, he began to build a wall. He locked the children of Latin American migrants in tents to prevent more men and women from traveling. He persecuted the illegal workers who have kept the country going for decades. It temporarily banned people from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the country and threatened to deport young people who came to the United States as children.
Can these wounds be healed? And if so, how is incoming President Joe Biden’s administration going to try? American migration expert Doris Meissner is seeking answers to these questions.
