Camille Stewart Gloucester

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.

So

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.

And about...

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.

It would make me emotional.

Because it's like, then you start to realize, like, wow, what if that was me and my child or...

I'm not a mother, but I can only imagine what that must be like for them to be going through these things as a, as a woman being on your, on your period and being out and not having anything, you know, going to the bathroom out there.

I'm not educated enough to feel like I can argue one way or another or defend one position or another.

I went out there purely for my love of humanity.

And I think being able to support in whatever way I can, that was the way that I felt like I could serve and be a support.

They don't even have a grocery store in Hakumba.

I saw a lot of families.

I could tell that there were leaders within the group because they were helping organize as much as the volunteers were.

And unfortunately, there was language barriers.