Welcome to
Tales of Humanity from the Borderlands
Where you’ll meet the heroes tearing down the walls that divide us.
It was family separation and “kids in cages” that first compelled me to the US southern borderlands. I needed to see for myself the horrors the headlines then described. What I found was worse than I ever imagined:
A humanitarian crisis caused by a global backlash against kindness and compassion.
What I learned on that first trip, in January 2020, was that the many-headed hydra that is the US immigration “system” is decades old, was built by presidents on both sides of the aisle, and has become the country’s most shameful export. I discovered that the “system” grew up alongside me, hiding in plain sight all around me, and that what some deem “broken” is working just fine for the fearmongers and demagogues that profit from it.
I realized that Trump merely exposed the inhumanity of a detention-to-deportation pipeline developed on the theory of “prevention through deterrence.” But that even under Biden, as with Carter, Clinton, and Obama before him, the strategy more aptly named “deterrence through cruelty” has driven the world to a global apartheid.
I decided that if you knew, you’d be outraged too. But who wants a horror story in their inbox every week?
That’s why a promise to bring you tales of humanity and hope. Sometimes written, other times voiced, these are stories of inspiration told from the heart about human rights defenders worldwide, collected while researching my forthcoming book: CROSSING THE LINE: FINDING “AMERICA” IN THE BORDERLANDS (2023).
I invite you to subscribe for three journeys in one…
You’ll get sneak peeks of CROSSING THE LINE in your inbox at least twice each month, with stories that chronicle my growing awareness of the issues, while earning a front-row seat to my race to publication and the simultaneous launch of a podcast to support the book.
Care to learn more before you subscribe? You’ll find the origin story of the project here: Confronting the Cruelest Policy of All…
