From the Borderlands

In her new podcast, Sarah Towle, author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, pushes back against the media disinformation machine by offering a narrative that puts people at the center of the immigration discussion. Join Sarah as she provides commentary on current events and speaks to immigration advocates and experts as well as people caught under the system's cruel knee, all while sharing excerpts from Crossing the Line that spotlight the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people working to tear down the walls that divide us.  Sarah implores us to join their "grassroots war of welcome." There is no time for despair, she declares. And all hands are needed urgently on deck. She calls us to collective action, now, to create a bulwark against the worst impulses of nativist governments pedaling in propaganda and lies that vilify, in the UN's terms, the world's most vulnerable people.  Showcasing the folks still flying the tattered flag of values espoused in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Sarah's tales of humanity from the borderlands look to the front-line humanitarian first responders for answers to one of global society's most pressing challenges. "They show us, every day, that there is a better way: that we can welcome with dignity and we'd be a much better people for it," states Sarah.  She reminds us that hope knows no borders. And state-sponsored cruelty as a strategy to deter migration is not okay. sarahtowle.substack.com