It is interesting to see how racism seems to get in the way of compassion. We are trying to bring two blind/deaf brothers from Mexico for much needed vision/hearing treatments to our community this summer. While many are open to helping or have been touched by the cause in one way or another, it breaks my heart when people say "We have plenty of people suffering here-why help those "Mexicans" who keep jumping the border for free help all the time?" It is so sad. How can we reach people when their heart is so cold and they are so hard to tap into their humanity? I ask this question daily. But at the end of the day, we are still planning to help these little guys, and the reality is that there is still love and compassion out there--I see it when my patients come in to donate, even a dollar just to help these small strangers. A little note, the elder brother Joshua asked our partnering Medical Director of the clinic Angel Notion why we were helping them? She said because we love them. Then he asked, but how can we love them when we don't even know them? She cried. We should all learn from this and learn that if we close our eyes, we are all people in the end--and truly the world would be better if we could know how and learn how to love people even if we don't know them.