In early March we, as an audience, were blessed with the gift of “Logan,” the most recent of the X-Men films and the last film of the franchise in which both Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart will star.

Yet, the film has an underlying message which is relevant, especially now. The film is actually Donald Trump’s worst nightmare — a Canadian man helping a group of Mexican children get across the border.

The X-Men franchise, both the comics and films, have always been about various civil rights movements. Mutants are viewed as a lesser and ultimately more dangerous race, and government officials are constantly passing legislations in the comics to prevent mutants from having certain rights.

One Twitter user skillfully (and accurately) pointed out how Mike Pence “looks like he’s about to introduce legislation to outlaw the X-Men.” Even Professor X and Magneto are supposed to represent certain civil rights activists from history, the Professor being Martin Luther King Jr. and Magneto being Malcolm X.

Logan introduces new and current issues, the borders between America and its neighbors, and the travel ban that Trump is trying to put in place. In the film, Logan is attempting to help a group of mutant children from Mexico out of the U.S. and into Canada. The children are all Mexican, and on top of that, they’re mutants. The children in the film are intended to represent the real America’s outsiders with that double whammy. Not only are they immigrants, but they’re also “dangerous.”

On top of that, the group of men hunting them are led by a white guy with a southern accent, and an old white man who was “responsible” for the extinction of mutants, Dr. Rice. These men were initially using the children for their own use, to use them as weapons.

It isn’t until these children decide they want to live free lives that Rice orders for the children to be put down, leading Logan to the discovery of Laura. The only place the children are safe is Canada, the only place that will grant them asylum.

When you analyze the film in this light, it’s horrifying how real it is, despite it being a superhero movie. Trump’s Wall is being designed, according to Trump, and after his electoral victory, hate crimes against the Latino community have increased.

According to a report from the Southern Law Poverty Center in November, there were over 400 cases of harassment since the election season began. So, many U.S citizens are in support of the wall, and in support of keeping people “where they came from,” but do they realize their comments fall on children’s ears? When someone calls Latino adults “dirty wetbacks,” you’re also calling Latino children “dirty wetbacks.”

The violence against the children goes much further than verbal violence, though. We see many of these children die, on or off screen. This is the cruel reality that we live in, but choose to ignore.

Immigrant children die everyday in their war-torn home countries which they are trying to escape, and we only care about them if they can provide free labor for us. The U.S. draws the line in their value once they start asking for citizenship.