Today, instead of looking back on an uglier time, we see a border that has become ever more militarized, ever more deadly for migrants, ever more dismissive of their lives and indifferent to their suffering. The U.S.-Mexico border, I have learned, is a place that perpetually shatters naivety, a place where idealism withers in the face of a violent status quo that is constantly being normalized, minimized, or ignored.
