7/17/21

By Josh Rubin

In Haddox Park, bordered on one side by fencing that surrounds all of Fort Bliss, people filter in to join a protest against the migrant child prison held inside, far from our sight.

We drove around yesterday, straight from the airport, to get a look at the cavernous tents where the children are lined up on low bunks like cordwood. We can see very little with our eyes, and must rely on reports that shock even our battle hardened souls.

So here we are, from across great distances, standing with our El Paso friends, in a little greenery that disguises the desert where children who were on their way to their families are held until their hearts and minds are damaged. By a bureaucracy that pretends to care.

We are not fooled. We are here to stand against an atrocity that pretends that it is not.