JE #5

“What we say when we are talking about border security and the way that it is being discussed now comes with an acceptable collateral damage,” hearing this sentence from the documentary made me feel disgusted in how the border politics are being drawn out. Hearing this documentary made me feel disgusted because this article has been published since August of this year, but yet you do not see any legislators paying attention to the violence that is occurring at the border. Not even an American created this documentary, a British male had to create this documentary in order for anyone to be informed. The lack of attention that the violence at the border is having is disheartening to me because it shows what our democracy truly stands for, which is not freedom or this ideal pursuit of happiness. When a president I voted for begins to say rhetoric such as, “a bill is created to make the toughest border enforcement plan ever created,” I begin to loose hope in the people leading this capitalist country.

It is a birth right, a human right to migrate on this planet as freely as possible. Just because one does not have man made papers to claim legitimacy to a piece of land does not mean one cannot walk past it because how my mom says, “Uno se muere pero la madre naturaleza todavía se queda,” meaning that are claim to land is only temporary so we should not have the right to withhold people from crossing on it. Similarly, the Opata have no titles or human-made claims (or should I say Anglo-made claims) to their land, relinquishing them from their place of living. Concha was another character who suffered from displacement and being torn away from her family. Borders create violence, displacement, terror, and violence whenever they are drawn. Many bodies will continue to fall under the heat of the dessert and no one will hear that person fall, neither the US government nor the people residing on this side of the border. Immigration policies will be made ignorantly and without another thought to them. Suffering will persist until we rid are selves of people-made borders and allow everyone to walk freely on this earth.