Borderlines
Sedona, Arizona, 2006.
This short essay by William Finnegan in the New Yorker is one of the most lucid pieces on immigration that I have read in quite some time. Anti-immigrant sentiment isn't rising because there are more drug mules and headless corpses on the border. It's rising because people are afraid, uncertain and threatened, and the temptation to exploit that fear for easy political gain is too great for many people who like to think of themselves as leaders.
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010
