Leaving one’s homeland for the promise of a brighter future in a new land is a story retold across the centuries. Being transplanted into a foreign land is hard enough even if you have the label of “legal migrant”. For those who are fleeing poverty or conflict, the label “illegal alien” adds to an already burdened soul and often the life that promises greater hope in the wake of terror, brings new horrors of its own.
Immigration is a political ball that is constantly up in the air, yet what the political spin-doctors continue to overlook is the simple fact that these “illegals” are actually human beings. They’re not statistics, not inconveniences, but people: fathers, mothers, babies, teenagers, young and old alike who have risked everything for a chance at the kind of life many take for granted.