Initially well-intentioned welcomes have become tainted by infusions of what appears to be exasperation, and been distilled into flame by xenophobic rhetoric from leaders evoking people’s baser instincts.Īs the Christmas season approaches this year, a person who’s dogged me for 65 years now emerges from the bushes at the back of my brain and demands my immediate attention.
Their movements, their needs, and their pleas have become a bit of a moral quandary for the citizens of the destinations to which they aspire. Over much of the world this year, desperate people have decided that their living conditions - poverty, hunger, violence, corruption - are insupportable, that almost anyplace else has got to be better than where they are, and have begun migrating toward what they hope will be better lives.
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