El amor cruza fronteras / Love crosses borders
People stepping off deportation planes often do so in shoes without laces—another small indignity in a much larger unraveling. What happens when someone who has lived that reality returns to meet them with dignity, presence, and care?
A pilgrimage to Guatemala reveals a hard truth: the system isn’t broken—it’s working as designed—yet people still choose love across borders.
At the gates of ICE, where compliance is promised safety, faithfulness is increasingly transformed into a mechanism of surveillance, profit, and quiet cruelty—and the question before us is how we will resist without losing our humanity.
Outside the gates of ICE, where hope and home so often collide, I witnessed once again how love—and the dignity it affirms—can make a home even in the shadow of exile.
In the shadow of ICE, where policies divide and punish, something else takes root—mercy, resilience, and a defiant, unshakable hope.
Greatness is found in standing firm in the Way of Love.
This is the first time I have ever been made to feel welcome by an American in this country."
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