Mary Gay Scanlon: “This violence is enabled by lawmakers who choose to do nothing, who block legislation in the wake of tragedy after…”

This is not supposed to be punitive, but it’s pretty hard to say that this is anything but.

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…

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.