This is the coolest part of the day, which is why we have to leave early in the morning before it gets super hot.

In some ways, water is like gold, you know.

You can live without food for a long time, but you can't really go more than a few days without water.

And people have fought over water for centuries,

eons, but who knew that just a little bit of water not to die

would be so difficult and controversial.

Some people believe giving the migrants water is God's work

and other people believe taking the water away from the migrants is God's work.

This is season three of Sounds Like Hate, a podcast series from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

I'm Jamila Paxima.

And I'm Yvonne Laddie. This season, we are examining the rights and lives of individuals who too often have difficulty being accepted for who they are. People who still, despite decades of civil rights battles and triumphs,

are forced to continue to demand equal rights, and in the case of migrants, protections afforded under the law.

In this season, we travel to Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.

We will meet folks who say modern day laws and policies continue to hold them down from living

a life of full potential.

For some people, discrimination and hate is experienced in overt actions.

Other times, oppression is subversive and destructive.

These are the stories we've been investigating about individuals fighting for each other's rights.

In part one of the unwelcome, we are on the Arizona border.

Migrants are crossing the southern border in record numbers.

So far in 2021, over 1.5 million migrants were detained, with reports of many attempting to cross the border three to four times in a single month.

But it's not just the harsh conditions of the desert or border patrol migrants need to fear.

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