The Myth of the Diseased Immigrant

Want to know how far we’ve sunk? Here’s how far: There was never any chance at all that we would handle the crisis of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children running for their lives and arriving at our border with any maturity or grace at all. There was never a chance we’d take them in, get them fed and settled, and then consider sensibly how we can address the immigration-emigration mess on both sides of our border—and on our border—while working to send the kids safely home. More4 Life Lessons That Lead to Happiness, Success and LongevityThe Leadership Secret Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg Have In CommonDefending Bergdahl: Can Star Lawyer Clear Freed Soldier's Name? NBC NewsThis Dog's Final Day Proves We Should Live Every Day Like It's Our Last Huffington PostHow Israelis Feel About the Gaza Boys' Beach Deaths NBC NewsInstead we got the usual circus, the usual call to send in the troops, lock down the border, impeach the president—because, well, why not?—and under no circumstances to consider the comprehensive immigration reform bill languishing in the House. And now, at last, we have arrived at the inevitable sub-basement level of the debate. Now the nativists and xenophobes have played their nastiest—and least surprising—card: the border must be secured and the immigrants sent back because they are, of course, diseased. That ugly cawing has been growing in the past week—and a lot of it has come from the usual sources. “Our schools c...
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