Is there a human-rights dimension to immigration? Seeking clarity through the prism of morality and human survival

She sat with him for a day, searching for water, never straying too far away for fear she could get lost. On Sunday, her little boy died.... [Edith] Rodriguez had staggered and zigzagged in her dehydrated state. At one point, it took a half hour to track just 100 feet of her journey. Six hours later, they found the boy's body under a mesquite tree. His mother had neatly placed his shoes to his side and carefully folded his arms across his chest. Authorities held Rodriguez for three days while they contemplated charging her with child endangerment. She was finally released with no charges and returned to Mexico(1).