#NoWallNoBan: Muslims and Latinxs as Enemies of the United States Nazia Kazi - Truthout
go to original February 7, 2017

In the standard liberal story about migration, immigrants come to the US for opportunity - for a fair shake at the "American Dream." This narrative concludes that, because of the United States' exceptional history of inclusiveness, immigrants ought to be celebrated.

Certainly, migrants do come to the U..S in search of a better life. But what are the economic and political conditions that lead to their migration? Why might a better life await them here? What relationships exist between migrants' home nations and the United States?

The liberal narrative isn't just simplistic; it's incomplete. What hides behind claims that the US ought to celebrate migrants who leave behind poverty-stricken or war-torn homelands is often a more sinister story. What stands behind that rosy tale of Good Samaritanism is one in which global superpowers stand accused of creating the very conditions that lead to migration to begin with.

Once we acknowledge the U.S.'s complicity in creating these conditions, we must acknowledge that Americans shouldn't accept migrants simply out of a sense of sympathy or goodwill. Instead, they ought to do so because the U.S. has destabilized the very nations from which immigrants come.

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