Commentary: Why imprison immigrants at all?
The Trump administration, shamed by the national outcry over separating children from their asylum-seeking parents at the border, has capitulated. The president Wednesday signed an executive order to end that brutal practice - and instead could imprison children alongside their parents indefinitely.
The question Americans need to ask themselves next is this: Why are we imprisoning immigrants or asylum seekers at all?
I have been working with families and individuals in our immigrant prison system for about a decade, including people arrested in ICE raids, victims of human trafficking and those who
