Thread: Feds start "no bond" policy on detained immigrants

Originally Posted by Barbara Hines, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Keeping mothers and children detained is the most extreme position the government could take.

Even worse than splitting up families, and so much worse than sending them back to their nations of origin.

Better that the judges impose the humanitarian alternative to detention: deportation of these families, keeping them together.

Sexual abuse is now "persecution"? Really? Well, in America it's just a crime, and I don't think the criminal laws in Central America are all that different.