The grieving family, the protesters, the police in gas masks and military garb: They all seemed locked into a story as old as America itself.

Eric Gardner’s untimely death at the hands of the NYPD has been ruled a homicide. But in truth, it was more than just an illegal chokehold that killed him.

Women and children make up three-fourths of all immigrants. Families are living in fear in the shadows, creating unstable anxiety-ridden lives for children.