Camille Stewart Gloucester
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There are many people who, let's say, are in a mindset of not wanting migrants and they view them with contempt.
Yes, so it's hard when we experience that and people say things like, these migrants are coming to invade our country.
We also ask them to treat us as people.
Because if we are here, it is not because we want to invade a territory.
It is because we want to come to fight for a better future for our children without stepping on anyone.
Nobody wants this.
But where we come from, we receive travelers with open arms.
and then arriving here and seeing faces of contempt.
So yes, the important thing is that people must know that being an immigrant is not easy.
Everyone despairs because everyone wants to leave.
So everyone sees each other as enemies.
Let's say, for example, right now, when they are sending cars to collect people to process, so everyone there thinks, I hope they take me.
And there were only five Border Patrol at the time.
I don't know the best way to say this, but what hit me deeper was when
This might seem strange, but when I saw women's sanitary napkins or the diapers or the babies, it was kind of like a fabric padded crib bassinet type thing.
That suddenly hit me on a deeper level.