REFUGEE-MIGRANT ISSUE

'I have come as a pilgrim to a country geographically small, but historically great, to an island that down the centuries has not isolated peoples but brought them together, to a land whose borders are the sea.'

Europe, or at least a substantial segment of it, abandoned its vision and began imitating Donald Trump by building walls, as Trump did at the US-Mexico border, which at the time, however, Europe strongly condemned.