Mary Gay Scanlon: “How can we say then that he should be beyond the reach of the law?”

We would be much better off if we were actually spending money to create a functioning immigration system.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.

We all enjoy the extra hour or so of sunlight in the summer, but when people are considering this, they need to consider the extra hours of darkness in the winter.

Why are we jailing, essentially, people who are not a danger to our communities, who are in many cases contributing members to our economy and our communities, folks who are employed and are paying taxes? Why are these folks being put in a…