The media, academia, and online platforms have increasingly pushed the idea that America is broken, that its systems are unfair, its institutions are not to be trusted, and its values are out of step with the world.
But it’s a harder argument to make when you look beyond our borders.
While a narrow slice of voices in America debates whether this country still works, women around the world have risked everything to get here.
My mother was one of them.
She took to the ocean during the Mariel boatlift in 1980, risking everything to flee Cuba’s communist regime — with me as a child. More than 100,000 Cubans made that same journey over the course of several months, leaving behind a system that offered them no real freedom or future.
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