When presidents don’t enforce our nation’s immigration laws, every community is a border community. And nowhere is that more true than in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as Frontline viewers found out recently after an episode about child labor in the city’s seafood processing plants.

Frontline’s story focused on two migrant cousins from Guatemala referred to as “Nathaniel” and “Joel,” although those are not their real names. The two teenagers, ages 14 and 16, respectively, left their home country because gangs were trying to force them to sell drugs, according to Frontline, although Frontline never explained why the presence of these gangs forced them to go all the way to the United States and not stop in any of the other countries along their journey.