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Asylum for the Few
US immigration and refugee policy has long been determined by what is most politically beneficial to the US — not who actually deserves protection.
Eileen Truax is a journalist living in Los Angeles. She is the author of We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America, and Beyond and Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream.
US immigration and refugee policy has long been determined by what is most politically beneficial to the US — not who actually deserves protection.