In Thinking Beyond Humanitarian Borders, Miriam Ticktin explores how the world views illegal immigrants based on their age. Kids are viewed from a humanitarian perspective and often pitied, while older immigrants have the reputation of being criminals or taking Americans’ jobs. When people think of adult illegal immigrants, words like “criminal” “lazy” and “uncivilized” come to mind. “Interestingly, children are usually the face of humanitarianism; they are represented as innocent victims of famine, war, or natural disaster” (257 Ticktin). As Ticktin puts it children “are seemingly outside politics and certainly outside blame for their misfortune” and consequently, portrayed as victims. (Ticktin 257). Somehow through the global eye, once
