People are dying because they don’t have enough water during the long journey across the border, and some are responding by purposely destroying the water they could use to keep on living.

Again, the lesson is that if you come into the U.S. without papers, you deserve to die.

No matter who you are. The people risking death out in the desert aren’t walking miles and miles and miles to get to the U.S. because they want to “ruin our country.” For fuck’s sake, what kind of country is it, anyway, when we care more about enforcing the notion that this land is our property than we care about human life? How much more ruined could we get? Terrorists are the very least of our problems, when we’ve managed to sink so very low. But all that stories like these go to show yet again is that this isn’t about terrorists. It’s about making sure that nobody lacking a fancy, really expensive permission slip gets to come into the country without having to risk their lives. It’s about showing people how less than human we think they are because of the color of their skin and the language(s) they primarily speak and the country they were born in.