7/15/21

By Josh Rubin

On Saturday, Witness at the Border will join with others from across the country at the gates of Fort Bliss, to stand once again in protest of the tragic practice of imprisoning migrant children, this time on the largest military base in the country. We will raise our signs and our voices.

We will raise our eyes. We will once again bear witness to the moral failure of a policy toward people that denies them a human right. The right to migrate in order to survive. Whether they flee the ravages of climate change or the consequences of political and economic persecution, their right must be recognized and honored.

The barriers we build, political and physical, create camps of the desperate. They force people to take routes through the mountains and deserts that are littered with the bones of those who fell. They tear families apart, and then house some of their children in conditions that break their hearts. That make those children question whether they should be alive.

That is where we will stand with our signs, with our friends and allies, with our heads raised. To see what we are doing to the children who come to ask for mercy at our gates.