In a year, ten thousand children caught crossing the border unaccompanied are not immediately deported, but rather detained in the US. Countless ones are kept for long periods of time, are subjected to concrete cells, harsh conditions with no oversight, beatings, poor medical care, no meaningful legal counsel, and a criminal justice system that treats them like they’re adults. Many of them, of course, don’t speak English. Read the story.
This is how inhumane the federal war on illegal immigration is now, and they aren’t even really trying to seal the border. They only catch a small percentage of those coming across. Again, our only hope for clarity on this issue is in focusing on the state. The more the market and not the state is free to determine the movement of people, the better.
Thanks to Scott Horton for the link.
