Immigration

NBC News - The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a baseless claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating pets said she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout. Erika Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing and wrote that her neighbor said she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors. She was among the first people to post about the rumor, and screenshots of the post were circulated online. Her post alone was not solely to blame; others have also contributed to false allegations. Still, “it just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Lee told NBC News. Read more about Lee and her reaction to this week's events.

Anand Girdharadas -We shouldn't be having a defensive conversation about immigration that starts with the story of border chaos or make-believe ideas about what migrants are doing.
We should have our own conversation from first principles: This is an extraordinary country. It's extraordinary for many reasons. Among the reasons it is extraordinary: it is a country built of the world, from the world, from every part of the world.

I have had the fortune, as a journalist, as a foreign correspondent, to visit dozens of countries. And I've enjoyed all these countries I've been to, but I've actually never been to any other country that truly aspired to be a country made of the world.

When you're in France — there are immigrants in France, but it is not like the United States. It is not a country made of the world. It is a country centered on Frenchness. A lot of countries in the world — people may not know this — don't even have birthright citizenship. If you live there, if you're born there, even if your parents are from there, you still don't necessarily become a citizen.  More