Amidst the current contention over immigration enforcement - and I fully agree that every order of removal should be enforced - we can lose empathy for the human factor that motivated most (but not all) of those who crossed our borderline.
All the intending economic migrants who didn't follow our immigration law. The "persons not lawfully present" in the USA, to use the last administration's softer terminology for illegal aliens.
Even my flinty heart is touched by the lyrics of the great song "Across the Borderline," and if I could I'd make it mandatory listening for our immigration enforcers.
It's been covered by everybody from Willy Nelson to Bob Dylan and in a lot of different styles, but only the Tejano style sounds exactly right.
We can enforce the law and also appreciate that "hope remains when pride is gone, and it keeps you moving on, calling you across the borderline."
The full lyrics are here.
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