Karine Jean-Pierre is the senior adviser and national spokeswoman for MoveOn, which is one of a coalition of organizations supporting the Families Belong Together day of action on June 30. The views expressed here are solely the author's.

(CNN) "What did I do wrong?"

She was a small girl. Her hair was up, and she wore a white T-shirt that stood out in the dry 100-degree heat of a summer day in El Paso, Texas. And she held up a sign that enveloped her whole body that read simply: "What did I do wrong?"

Karine Jean-Pierre

I saw her down at the border, where I went this week to bear witness to the inhumane, unspeakable conditions the Trump administration is imposing on children and families who come to America looking for help. I went there to see for myself one of the places where the Trump administration has been throwing children and families into cages -- children and families who have just fled cages of violence and danger in their native countries.

That young girl had done nothing wrong, just as the children and families who arrived here seeking nothing but a better life, regardless of any potential infractions of law, have done nothing wrong.

But what have we done wrong, America? This country is not just experiencing a political crisis. We are experiencing a crisis of morals and convictions. We are at a breaking point, a moment of reckoning where we must decide what we want to be as a nation.

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