Stateless is a Netflix series based on a true story about the state of immigrants in an Australian detention camp. I just finished watching it yesterday. And it broke my heart. I was reminded of how I felt while watching 'The Wire" many years back.

The heart breaking scenes where families are torn apart. Decent and desperate human beings are being taken advantage of at each stage of their journey. The emotional turmoil of fleeing a native land and doing dangerous things to arrive at a foreign country. Being treated as less than human wherever they arrive because they don't know their rights - or don't have any at first.

When I saw the show, my first reaction was - Is Australia just like America? But I suspect that these conditions exist in most of the developed countries.

What makes me sad is that this mass migration causes so many to die along the way. It breaks up families and drives very young children to dangerous situations. Just from basic research, I am aware that depression and suicide rates among immigrants is very high... and that's for the people that successfully arrived at the foreign land they thought would solve all their problems.

And the phrase that feels so empty keeps coming up in my mind.

It is not fair.

I don't know who to be angry at anymore. I feel an urge to do something to help people in that situation in any little way I can. Deep down, I know that the problem starts with the pushing factors from the home country... and that is a massive and complex problem around corruption, power, resources, abuse, predatory historical events and currency.