The 21st century began with the shocking terrorist attack against the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.
It was the first attack the United States endured throughout its history from hostile forces in its own territory, resulting in more than three thousand deaths.
An old enemy, terrorism, loomed with a new dimension and capacity; its global reach to hit anywhere.
Far from being an isolated case, the brutal attack of September 11, 2001, recorded a smaller scale but equally bloody record, such as the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA, in 1992 and 1994, which cost hundreds of Argentine lives, or those in 1998 to the American embassies in Kenya or Tanzania.
In the context of the war against terrorism, those attacks were succeeded by others at Madrid’s Atocha station in March 2004 or the July 2005 bombings in the London underground and Tavistock square, which caused hundreds of deaths.
These events also had significant practical consequences in the daily life of millions of people who live in a different country than the one they were born (when they travel or turn remittances) and in millions of men and women who travel the world daily.
New rules for the control of migrations, movements of money and for security at airports created a hostile environment for millions of migrants around the world. And, somehow, many experience them.
Who has not had almost to undress to pass an aeronautical safety control sometime? Surely they have been tiresome experiences but better than those who have been delayed by their ethnic origin or appearance.
