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Will Joe Biden bring about a change in migration policy?
Photo: HECTOR MATA / AFP
For a long time the USA was a country whose borders were more open than elsewhere: "Give me your tired, your poor / your enslaved masses who long to breathe freely," it says at the foot of the Statue of Liberty.
Immigration has been the bedrock of the United States.
Until President Donald Trump destroyed it.
In four years in office he systematically sealed off the United States.
On the border with Mexico, he started building a wall.
He locked the children of Latin American migrants in tent cities to prevent more men and women from traveling.
He hunted down those illegal workers who have kept the country going for decades.
He temporarily banned people from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the country and threatened to deport young people who came to the USA as children.
Can these wounds be healed?
And if so, how is the administration of incoming President Joe Biden going to try?
US migration expert Doris Meissner is looking for answers to these questions.
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