What a Just Immigration Policy Looks Like
THE SOMALI-BRITISH WRITER WARSAN SHIRE begins her poem “Home” with the line, “No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark.”
Whatever the inciting forces are that propel people to undertake what is inevitably a dangerous, expensive, and arduous journey from their homeland into the unknown—the kind that rips apart families—they must be grim. And in the increasingly politicized debates within “destination countries” over
