2/11/21

By Josh Rubin

I am at a loss every time I see this. Someone points out, as witnesses are asked to do, that policies are causing suffering among migrants. That the Biden administration is expelling people by the thousands. That people, often people we know, remain in squalor along the muddy banks of the river. People who send us messages pleading with us not to forget them. As if we could ever forget them.

That there appears to be a mad scramble to put Haitians on planes to return them to the chaos of their home country. That the White House thinks that the people who live in “the mouth of a shark” should stay home, because, well, we aren’t ready to help them out of the deadly mess we put them in. Let me say that again. That we put them in.

That we are still separating children from their families and are reviving the child prisons to hold onto them.

And we get lots of people saying things about how they feel for the president. That we are being mean. That we should be patient.

You know, this group started as a way for me to encourage people to see for themselves the suffering of people under an immigration system that valued borders above human rights. To go and look for themselves. Because something happens when you do that. Something changes.

Look into the eyes of suffering. Let it in.

Biden is not the one that needs your tears.