After the Last Border Quotes

“What kind of people built into their laws and culture an infrastructure to care for refugees from all over the world? Good people.”
― Jessica Goudeau, After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

“I have come to believe that refugee resettlement is a bellwether of our country’s moral center—how we respond to the greatest humanitarian crises of our time reveals our nation’s soul.”
― Jessica Goudeau, After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

“Too often we focus on the opportunities the US provides immigrants in the land of the “American Dream,” and not on how our mercurial national moods lead to small and large policy shifts that radically affect real people.”
― Jessica Goudeau, After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America