[Newsweek] A Tale of Two Border Crises

The droves of migrants reaching for a share of our recovering economies are made up differently. But Europe and America both traverse an inflection point in global migration patterns, and our failure to cope is eerily similar.

Aerial view of Canary Island of Tenerife (Desiree Martin / AFP via Getty)

A sense of unregulated overflow. Asylum loopholes made hard to close by the tugging of the Western heart. A COVID dry-up of opportunity driving ever-more desperation, even as our ability to accommodate dwindles. Middle-ground solutions crowded out by a polarized discourse. The Canary Islands and the U.S.-Mexico frontier may be half a globe away, but the migration crises in each are eerily similar in their tests of aged humanitarian pieties. From the Old World to the New, could this pandemic herald the end of open borders?

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