While immigration is a highly contested political issue, six Whitman students who spent one week on the US-Mexico border reveal that immigration and border control is a humanitarian issue as much as it is a political one.
Whitman students discover humanitarian issues close to home during their work on the US-Mexico border, suggesting that we often look to far abroad when thinking about activism.
The federally condoned violence along the U.S./Mexico border is another chapter in the United States' abuse and exploitation of a refugee population and a disempowered racial group. Those who suffer most have the least resources and political power.
