This is too good not to have typed out for alt-text: But on one recent evening, as the sun set over the scrublands north of Eagle Pass, I could sense a great invisible hand above the Rio Grande. While the militarized border fails to stop many hopeful migrants from journeying north,...

...journeying north, it does something else to them. It roughs them up. It puts them in debt. It renders them vulnerable. It makes them scared to ask the government to protect their rights. The border, then, is a sort of anti-union. It turns each migrant into a worker who is boxed in and alone,...