This logic, rooted in the dehumanizing rhetoric of war, has transformed the border into a permanent zone of exception where some of the most vulnerable people on earth face death and disappearance on a daily basis, where children have been torn from their parents to send the message You are not safe here, you are not welcome. In this sense, the true crisis at the border is not one of surging crossings or growing criminality, but of our own increasing disregard for human life.
