Texas is ground zero for the migration crisis. Between 2019 and 2024, almost half of the 11 million unauthorized entries into the United States occurred in the Lone Star State. Such figures tend to reduce individuals to mere statistics, except for rare moments when the human cost of this catastrophe breaks through to shock the conscience: the photo of a Salvadoran father and his young daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande at Brownsville, or the picture of a U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback collaring a desperate Haitian migrant in Del Rio. D. Esperanza, who as a fourteen-year-old spent five months in a detention camp for undocumented migrant children near El Paso in 2018, wants his memoir Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival…
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