Last month, many of us were horrified and grieved to learn about the tragic loss of 53 lives lost in San Antonio, Texas as migrants were trapped in the back of a truck. These were parents, children, siblings, human beings who were desperate for an opportunity to find and create a better life for themselves and their loved ones. As the Somali poet Warsan Shire reminds us in her poem “Home,” “no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck feeding on newspaper unless the miles traveled means something more than journey.” As leaders on both sides of the aisle continue to use fear and scarcity to shape critical asylum policies, as people of faith, we know another way is not only possible but essential. Because we know that th...