A View from Another Country

This morning I was sitting on a bus when two very articulate students got on and sat somewhere behind me. They were on their way to their university campus. Being only three of us on the top deck of the bus, it was easy to hear their conversation. And it was rather sad.

"Would you go to the USA at the moment?" one asked. His friend replied, "I don't think it will be safe to go there in my lifetime. That ICE is arresting grannies when they arrive, so what would they do to a boy with brown skin?"

Without debating the veracity of his claim about who is being arrested on arrival, it was a very small window into the opinion of young people I wouldn't normally get to speak to. I can remember a time when young people couldn't wait to go and try out the States for at least a holiday if not some work experience. How times have changed.