Author: Alex Poppe

Inauguration Day set the tone for the brand new administration: punitive and devoid of empathy. Eliminating pathways for authorized migration on the southern border made me consider my late father. He and my grandmother had immigrated to the U.S. after WWII on board the USAT Basic Henry Taylor, a army transport ship, with help from the Worldwide Refugee Group, a precursor to as we speak’s United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees. I used to work for organizations offering help to migrants and asylum-seekers on the U.S.–Mexico and the Mexico–Guatemala borders. Closing the CBP One app put already susceptible individuals at…