If life across the border is cheap, if violence is routine and tragedy a habit, then, the logic goes, “they” don’t experience fear the same way. On the other hand, “we”—the collective social we, we the people who have relative privilege, the hardworking (white) folks, who have come so far, who are so upstanding and special, should not have to fear. Sure in the ghettos, it’s scary, but for them fear is just part of life. It’s easier for them.
