What is the cost of making 5 million families safer

What is the cost of relieving 5 million families from fear of sundering

What is the cost of compassion

What is the cost of securing children in the safety of their family?

What is the cost of turning a blind eye

And refusing to allow the children of 5 million families

To lose that knot of anxiety in their belly

What is the cost of being a compassionate country?

Photo: Migrant women and children disembark from an ICE bus in Phoenix May 2014.   Reuters/Samantha Sais