Politics aside, practice matters. Cicero: “Those who know only their own generation remain children forever.” George Santayana (1905): “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” (p. 284). A variation of Mark Twain’s (1869) reasons for travel:
“History [a form of travel] is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it surely on this account” (p. 427).
References
Santayana, G. (1905). Reason in common sense. In G. Santayana (2005-2006),
The life of reason: The phases of human progress (Vol. 1). C. Scribner’s Sons.
Twain, M. (1869). Innocents abroad. American Publishing.
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The Eisenhower program was hailed as a fix for the 1950s border crisis, but numbers may have been manipulated by immigration services.
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Kelly Lytle Hernandez: "We're being sold a story that mass arrests are what's going to resolve our immigration issues, when in fact it's comprehensive immigration reforms" (Newsweek; see above). In our generation, the future will likely be worse.