Where to, America?

This is the title of a series of articles starting today in the Stockholm based daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter written by the journalist and author Göran Rosenberg. First out is an article of the US boarder to Mexico and the Mexican immigration situation in mainly California, but also rest of the US. It tells about the enormous drama that is performed every day, every hour at the boarder posts, and also the drama of the illegal immigration. The article outlines in an interesting way the complexity of the situation and in the end draws a parallel with the European situation. Boats from Africa overloaded with people tries to get in to a Europe, where barriers towards the outside tends to get higher and higher, and demands for stricter legislation is raised from the inside.

We wrote a small note on this blog on the same issue in July this year. The perspective put forward by Mr McNulty from the American for the Arts is an interesting aspect. According to him immigrants start 40% of new businesses in US. Perhaps supporting this development, together with a variety of incentives to art and culture can be an opening for positive changes?