At its core, abuses at the border are not about whether some CBP officers are good or bad people. It’s about how our border policies are gravely dehumanizing, & strip all involved of human decency. Once you order people to violate others’ rights, a culture can quickly devolve.

The cruelty is the goal. It’s called “deterrence” - a policy stance that if our country inflicts enough pain on refugees, they will think twice before believing America is worth their dreams & aspirations. Only policy change can end cruelty, not blank checks to the status quo.

These are concentration camps. According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding, neglect, and shortage of resources. We saw all three of those signs on our trip yesterday. Another person died yesterday. And those are the deaths we know about.