Nine years ago today, the body of two-year-old Alan Kurdi was found on a beach in Turkey. Images of the little boy's lifeless body shocked the world. Along with him died his 5-year-old brother Ghalib and their mother, as well as 9 other people. 💔

Alan has become a symbol of the many lives lost to a racist, isolationist border regime. But since then, thousands of lives have been lost, and the system continues to point to increased border militarization and the criminalization of migrants and their supporters, rather than ensuring safe routes.