The migrant caravan is heading towards the US to escape an economy battered by the pandemic and hurricanes. They are bound towards Mexico, where the government has already deployed security forces and riot police.
Chuck Haga: What place do you love most?
The pandemic and quarantines have many folks rethinking their ties to a place. Now that their jobs can be performed remotely, people consider whether they might migrate to a place that feels more like home, a place they could love.
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Chuck Haga is a columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. (Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald)
A friend who has lived in many places pointed me recently to an article in The Atlantic about “topophilia,” the love of place – especially the place we consider “home.”
My friend spent his early years in Eastern Europe, survived World War II and eventually made his way to the United States. “I ve lived in a refugee camp, a grimy steel mill city, rural Pennsylvania, three seminaries, Erie, Detroit, San Jose, Los Angeles, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Mankato, the farm in North Dakota, a small Iron Range town, and lastly, the northern Minnesota wilderness, which I like best,�
Migrant caravan, now in Guatemala, could pose early test for Biden
By Austin Ramzy New York Times,Updated January 17, 2021, 6:15 p.m.
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Injured women, part of a Honduran migrant caravan trying to reach the US border, wept as they sat on the side of a highway after clashing with Guatemalan police and soldiers in Vado Hondo on Sunday.Sandra Sebastian/Associated Press
Thousands of migrants from Honduras have entered Guatemala and plan to continue north to the United States, potentially posing an early test of the immigration policies of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to ease the Trump administrationâs restrictions on asylum.
The migrant caravan is heading towards the US to escape an economy battered by the pandemic and hurricanes. They are headed towards Mexico, where the government has already deployed security forces and riot police.