Cruelty and Dehumanization at the Border
by Maria Oswalt — “We aren’t criminals! We’re hard workers!” According to BBC, this chant erupted among the crowd as the long-awaited caravan of migrants rushed towards the US-Mexico border. They were met with tear gas. US Customs and Border Protection tweeted that some of the migrants were throwing rocks at border patrol agents, so they “deployed tear gas to dispel the group because of the risk to agents' safety.” Parents were seen running away with choking toddlers, says As