In the final week of June 2019, two stories catapulted the USA–Mexico border crisis into the international headlines. One graphically reported the deaths of a father and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria, who drowned in the Rio Grande; the other told the story of young Gurpreet, a six-year-old girl who journeyed all the way from India only to die in the Arizona desert. We were stunned to our core by these two stories, but this is an old tale: the non-profit organisation Border Angels estimates t...