I remember reading this in college and wondering why it took so long for someone to bring this to my attention.

Listening to the voices involved, I now wonder why no one is doing this for our day and age?

I may have linked this series before but it bears another look if you are interested.

If you want your country to be better, everyone has to do their part.

The Things They Carried: Twenty-first Century Migrant Edition.

Heard some of this story and need to listen to the whole thing, while also passing it along.

Call a person “illegal” and I suppose it makes it easier to be cruel to them.

To separate them from their families.

To, at some level, create the conditions where they can be harmed, possibly killed.