Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

by Valeria Luiselli

the complex nature of the attraction of the United States for the refugee children and their families—and even for herself—despite its unwelcoming nature, casual racism, and official disinterest in their very existence.

“Before coming to the United States, I knew what others know: that the cruelty of its borders was only a thin crust, and that on the other side a possible life was waiting,”

The priority juvenile docket, in sum, was the government’s coldest, cruelest possible answer to the arrival of refugee children.