8/3/23

By Josh Rubin

From the day that the Texas National Guard began unspooling concertina wire along the Río Grande, and stood armed with guns and wearing protective gear, all to be used against poor migrants, it was like the gun in a Chekhov play: once it is introduced, it must be fired. That the bodies of children would turn up, tangled in the cruel barriers placed there in the name of deterrence, was inevitable. More will die, and more will mourn their children, unless we call on the better angels of our nature to see ourselves in the faces of the dispossessed and homeless.