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OPINION: In immigration policy, perception, actions and explanations matter – By: David Jessop

| March 16, 2021 | By David Jessop

Building barriers to halt cross-border migration can cause serious reputational damage.

The example that most readily comes to mind is the former US president’s contentious promise to build a wall along much of the 2,000-mile United States-Mexico border. Others include the Berlin Wall, which divided the east and western parts of the city to stop East Germans from fleeing a morally bankrupt state; the much more recent Hungarian ‘border barrier’, which aims to halt migrants travelling northwards, overland, mainly from Middle East conflict zones; and the West Bank wall or ‘separation fence’ constructed by Israel, it says to halt terrorism, but which many Palestinians see as a means of segregation.      Continue reading