The kids were looking at us with a deer-in-the-headlights gaze, a group of ten reporters with notepads chronicling any detail we could vacuum up as we were herded like animals through the facility. As we continued walking, she explained all of the approximately 1,500 kids would eat in a two-hour window, rotating. Disobeying orders, I couldn’t help saying hello, asking the children how they were doing the best I could with my limited Spanish. I soon was asked to stop.
