As cruel jokes go, this is a doozy: A separated family gets to meet in a dry riverbed at the border. The punch line? For only four minutes. Get it? Families, sadly, are separated every day. They have been; they will be. For a wide variety of reasons, very few of them good. But for this moment in time, we’re both noting and noticing that while the faces change, the unpleasantness remains the same. Which is how we ended up at Hugs Not Walls — an event in the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande, where El Paso, Texas, meets Juárez, Mexico — along with families separated by deportation and immigration status before it became the subject of major political debate. | 
