“A latina woman explained that many people in her community are not protesting because detention has long been a fact of life in the Valley. ‘It’s nothing new,’ a white man told us. ‘This is the border of Mexico. We have laws...what else are we supposed to do?” This quote stems from an article written by Allyson Hobbs and Ana Raquel Minian which focuses around the current immigration detention crisis in the United States. It was ultimately the nonchalant attitude of the man who was here quoted that made me reflect on the current situation more deeply. His argument - the “it’s nothing new” - is a classic rhetoric that is not new to debates around immigration, and has been used countless times throughout history as ways to shrug off more-present injustice that may be occuring. Such an argument has always perplexed me - true, there are laws set in place dictating how to handle immigration into our country. Nevertheless, the simple existence of a law does not mean that it is acceptable in an ethical or practicle sense. It is often easy to cling onto the law. And yet, as we have seen countless times throughout history, many laws that were acceptable (legal) in the past are no longer as such today, often times due to general changes in our society’s values or beliefs. Given these points, it is not unfair to hope that regardless of personal viewpoint, our society can lean away from comfortably clinging to the law when there may very well lie potential (and better) solutions elsewhere.