My Letter to the NYT Editor Nov 16, 2022

Migrants Fleeing for Their Lives

NY Times ; Letters (Wed. 11/16/22 on line; Thurs. 11/17/22 in print)

Photo:Federico Rios

To the Editor:

“Climbing the ‘Hill of Death’ Without Her Mother” (front page, Nov. 12), about migrants fleeing for their lives along a 70-mile hellish jungle pass in Panama, reminds us that the current refugee crisis is not about “open borders,” as the Republicans have been allowed to frame the debate.

A more reality-based national conversation should be about the existential crisis of the increasing number of societies across the planet that can no longer sustain human life.

Bob Salzman
New York