Headlines scream “border crisis.” What’s happening is this: migrants, many unaccompanied children, are arriving in numbers the system can’t process. The right calls it invasion, the left calls it failure, and children sleep under foil blankets while adults argue.
This isn’t new. Administrations change, policies tweak, and the suffering continues. What’s missing is honesty. America wants cheap labor and clean consciences at the same time. That contradiction drives the cruelty.
Until we admit the truth — that we built an economy dependent on the people we criminalize — the cycle won’t end.