Migrants Are on the Rise Around the World, and Myths About Them Are Shaping Attitudes - The New York Times
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Migrants Are on the Rise Around
the World, and Myths About
Them Are Shaping Attitudes
By EDUARDO PORTER and KARL RUSSELL JUNE 20, 2018
Immigration is reshaping societies around the globe. Barriers erected by wealthier nations have been unable to keep out those from the global South — typically poor, and often desperate — who come searching for work and a better life. While immigrants have often delivered economic benefits to the countries taking them in, they have also shaken the prevailing order and upended the politics of the industrialized world — where the native-born often exaggerate both their numbers and their needs.