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The Border Crisis | The New Yorker

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.A record number of migrants crossed the southern border of the U.S. this year, and accounts have emerged throughout the year of cities struggling to provide services to an influx of immigrants. Republicans have tied foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel to call for stricter policies regarding asylum seekers, while Democrats have been stymied in search of a more humane approach to a crisis with no easy solutions in sight. There’s a reason the last major overhaul of the immigration system in the United States was in 1986. Changing conditions and a political impasse have created a state of chaos that the Biden Administration can no longer deny. In June, th...

A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.I have never seen anyonereading a book inthis purgatory.Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos, are Filipinas. American colonization in the Philippines created this route for nurses to come to the United States, while draining the Philippines of its own medical professionals and depriving the children left behind of their mothers, exported to take care of others around the world.Where is the televised dramatic c...

A Departure from Reality | The New Yorker

If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.I have never seen anyonereading a book inthis purgatory.Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos, are Filipinas. American colonization in the Philippines created this route for nurses to come to the United States, while draining the Philippines of its own medical professionals and depriving the children left behind of their mothers, exported to take care of others around the world.Where is the televised dramatic c...