What happens when you need immigrants, but don’t want them? – By Ned Temko (CS Monitor) / May 18, 2023
The topography could hardly be more different: nearly 2,000 miles of cityscape and desert separate the United States from Mexico, while Britain’s southern coast, famed for its White Cliffs of Dover, is washed by the chilly, choppy waters of the English Channel.
Yet both the U.S. and Britain are at the eye of similar political storms: about how to establish control over a surge in migrants ready to risk imprisonment, deportation, violence, even their lives, to escape the lands of their birth.
That control could prove doable, if difficult. But the scramble for short-term policy fixes is masking a pair of deeper, long-term challenges facing the U.S., Britain, and other European nations.
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