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What History Teaches Us
Immigration is neither an invasion nor an anomaly. It’ s the symptom of a profoundly unequal world and of democracies weakened by their successive abandonments. The political history of the last century teaches a simple lesson, but one that must be constantly recalled: Each time a society accepts to sacrifice a defenseless group, then to lower everyone’ s rights to maintain order, it embarks on a dangerous slope. Fascism never begins with mass violence. It begins with fear. Then with laws that seem reasonable. Then with coercion. And finally with silence. When we wake up, it’ s often too late.
Dawn Rises Again
Back in the California fields. The silhouettes continue to bend over the earth. Their backs are bent, their hands scraped, but the work moves forward. Trucks loaded with crates leave the fields toward distribution centers. Tomorrow, these vegetables will be on American plates. No one will think about the hands that picked them. These workers don’ t ask for much. Not grandiose speeches about their contribution. Not statues in their honor. Just that we recognize a simple, stubborn, unavoidable truth: Without them, the country stops. With them, it breathes. The rest is politics. And politics, unfortunately, has always had trouble with the truth.
Flashmag! Edition 169 Fevrier 2026
Hubert Marlin Elingui Jr. Journaliste
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