Maeve Higgins: Migration is a much messier story than Biden likes to portray

Earlier this year, the Biden administration ramped up efforts to stop migrants from crossing the US border

Asylum-seekers try to beat the deadline to cross the border at Roxham Road from New York into Canada, after Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau announced a plan to close a loophole to an immigration agreement that has allowed thousands of asylum-seeking immigrants to move between the two countries. Picture: Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP

A morning spent walking on Keel Strand on Achill Island left me filled with longing. It’s beautiful there; gulls wheeling over soft white sand, bracing air gusting across glittering waves, the kind of magical light you only get in the West of Ireland. 

Why would anyone ever leave Mayo?