It is scary that we, as Americans, have become desensitized to our country holding children in tight cells, where we make them sleep on tiny, if existent, sheets and make them cry without their mothers. We read that there are cruel guards at the detention centers “yelling at the mothers separated from their children not to look at their children in the separate cages” because “the female guards told the mothers and children that they would be punished for looking at each other.” Everyday, there are tens of articles like this one from Buzzfeed News that depict horrific conditions and the extreme pain of children, adults, and families. When we think about the evolution of race relations over time in the United States, we like to think that they have improved. We think of the Magnuson Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, and others, and we think that the United States is no longer racist or prejudice against immigrants. However, the suffering of Mexican Americans today makes it obvious that we have not changed, especially under our current president. The difference is, the pain and inhumanity is hidden. As Professor Hobbs wrote, the detention center in Texas is not on Google Maps, few people are allowed in, and McAllen’s residents are used to it. The situation reminds me of the song “Immigrants” on the Hamilton Mixtape that raps, “And it’s, it’s really astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants, ‘immigrant’ has somehow become a bad word.” That we are all, to some extent, immigrants is a fundamental characteristic of this nation, yet our president continues to allow immigrants to live “faceless and nameless” in cages, hoping that someday they will arrive in the United States they imagined.