Today my first book,
America Is Better Than This: Trump’s War Against Migrant Families, comes out.
Why did I call it that? Because what the White House has done to limit both legal and illegal migration is illegal and cruel — and it threatens to change the fundamental fabric of who we are as a country.
Nowhere was this disconnect more apparent than at the State of the Union. On that day the most powerful people in Washington gathered, alongside the nation’s media, to take stock of where we are as a nation, and where we’re headed. On that self-important night in early 2019, amid all the senators and Supreme Court justices, all the TV reporters and celebrity guests, were two humble young women from Guatemala...