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When cruelty becomes casual. When we cheer for the suffering of the vulnerable as if it were sport.

The undocumented are not an invading army. They are victims of forces far larger than themselves—forces we in the US helped create. Trade policies that destroyed rural economies. U.S.-backed coups and proxy wars that destabilized entire regions. Corporate demand for cheap, rightless labor. Climate breakdown pushing communities past the point of survival. We helped set these fires, and now we condemn the people running from the flames.

Saying “get them out” isn’t strength. It’s moral cowardice. It’s the language of empires in terminal decline—empires that respond to their own failures by punishing the powerless. It’s a refusal to look honestly at the systems of exploitation, inequality, and violence that created this movement of human beings in the first place.

A society that cannot show empathy for the displaced, the poor, the frightened—no matter what papers they hold—is a society that has lost its soul. And when that happens, the real danger isn’t the people at the border. It’s what we’ve allowed ourselves to become ~Films For Action