In the remote Inuit village of Inukjuak, perched on the rugged eastern shore of Hudson Bay in the vast region of Nunavik, the late August evening usually promises a quiet, contemplative darkness. The long days of summer are fading, and the tundra begins its slow, colorful transition toward autumn. But on this particular Monday night, any sense of peace was irrevocably shattered at 7:45 p.m. when a frantic report came in claiming that a man had jumped into the freezing river and was drowning. In this northern community, cut off from the rest of the world by hundreds of kilometers…

Paragraph 1 The first time you saw the images, you may have looked away. Children on a beach at dawn, wandering alone with wet shoes and lost eyes. Mothers clutching babies, their hands raised toward fences that were no longer fences. Men and women from Morocco, from sub-Saharan Africa, from places where hope had withered, arriving in Ceuta by sea and by land, not as invaders but as human beings chasing a rumor of safety. That was the crisis in May 2021, when thousands crossed into the Spanish enclave on the northern edge of Africa, and the world suddenly discovered…