Hope on the Border is an emotional and heart-wrenching read written by poet, Seth Michelson. Michelson volunteers in a juvenile detention center for immigrant teenagers. He teaches poetry as a way for the incarcerated youth to vent their feelings about being locked up, missing their families, their dangerous journey to the U.S., and life in their countries. The individual stories are harrowing and the poems included in the book are beautiful and painful.

Michelson' caring and compassionate personality comes across in his honest and descriptive writing. He writes about the plight of immigrants with warmth and understanding. Hope on the Border is a book that everyone needs to read right now as ICE continually locks up men, women, and children. Brutal detention centers are popping up all over the U.S. as Trump's inhumane treatment of immigrants in the United States continues. It's a sad truth that the U.S. government no longer desires a diverse country and no longer respects the dignity of the immigrants searching for a better life.