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Is America the merciful nation immigrants want it to be?
Tyrone Beason
Thu, May 6, 2021, 8:00 AM·15 min read
Some of the world’s most vulnerable people arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border every day.
Men and women fleeing violence in Central America, political strife in Haiti and Venezuela. Boys and girls sent alone by their families, in the hope that America will offer them better lives.
They are beckoned by the image of the United States as a welcoming and merciful nation. But a disturbing increase in racist and xenophobic attacks targeting Americans with Asian and Pacific Island backgrounds makes it brutally obvious that my country doesn't always live up to its promise of acceptance.
Can a society that treats some of its own citizens of color as not fully American take responsibility for those who have left everything behind to become one of us?
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https://news.yahoo.com/america-merciful-nation-immigrants-want-120004977.html