Mayor Adams announces executive order aimed at restricting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's migrant busing

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50. There might come a time when Americans become migrants

by choice because they disagree with living in a dictatorship, or because they are persecuted by a dictatorial government, or are escaping a civil war between domestic terrorists and Constitutional loyalists. How will American migrants be treated at the Mexican border? How will they be treated at the Canadian border? Will rich American migrants returning to their European, African or Asian roots be welcomed with open arms? Will American migrant families be separated from each other?

The migrant problem at the border is because the people trying to come to our country are fleeing right wing governments, in some cases new to their country or their lives. They are fleeing economic disaster, environmental disaster, war, terrorism, drug wars, and cruelty that is hard to imagine. The people coming to the borders of our country are not just Latino or from South American countries. They are European, Asian, Middle Eastern, and African.

Uruguay has one of the highest standards of living in the world. What is that South American country doing that other South American countries could model, and perhaps make their own countries easier and safer to live in? Other stable countries have immigration problems, too, because people are trying to move out of harm's way. Instead of coming down hard on the people at the border, let's figure out a way to make other countries better and more responsible about caring for their citizens.

Humans have always been on the move, but until fairly recently in our history, there were fewer walls to stop them.