As a caravan of asylum seekers and migrants continues toward the U.S. border, and debates over immigration resume, it helps to understand the humanity and hardship of the families making the perilous journey.

As another caravan of Central American survivors of violence and abuse makes its way to the United States border, here’s what you need to know about the situation.  

President Trump’s recent Executive Order did not solve the family separation crisis. IRC humanitarian programs in some of the poorest places in the world tell us five things children and families need to survive and thrive that should be in place at the southern border.

It’s up to all of us to ensure the United States never again turns its back on the world’s most vulnerable people.