Evan Rachel Wood is fasting in order to raise awareness on the issues facing the U.S. and Mexican border. And she’s taking a tour across Texas this weekend, documenting her journey on Instagram.

“I don’t think it’s ever too late to want to make a change, and that’s why I’m here now because I want to learn,” she told People. “[I wanted] to put faces with the stories [and] to actually be there and hug the children and play with them, see how sweet and loving they are but to see how tired and in pain they are — and see the fear in their parents’ eyes.”

Evan said one mother and her 3-year-old son traveled all the way from Honduras, walking for hours in the middle of the night. Once they made it to the U.S., they approached ICE officials to ask for asylum. They were immediately detained, taken to a detention center and forced to sleep in cages, similar to the images seen on television.

“I heard they were taking our children, but I was hopeful they wouldn’t take my son,” she says. “Every time a new group came in, they were taking children [age] 5 and older and putting them in separate cells. They were crying for their mothers.”

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