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[Author’s Note: This commentary was originally published on March 31, 2005. Sadly, 20 years later, the more things have changed elsewhere, the more they’ve stayed the same in Haiti. So I’ve updated it — with a few new facts and, alas, the same old misery and hypocrisy.] Haitian migrants aren’t causing a crisis so much… Read more.
A few weeks ago, I observed that Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar,” comes across like a beat cop playing a military general without having to do so under enemy fire. Listening to him, you’d think he was gearing up for war with Russia, not rounding up scared immigrants like a farmer herding cattle. The Dominican… Read more.
As I noted years ago, Europeans once chided Americans with righteous indignation for their treatment of undesirable migrants. Now African migrants are posing the same challenges for Europe that Haitian migrants have been posing for the United States for decades.” With fecund immigrants creating an increasingly diverse continent and migrants swarming in from all over… Read more.
