Mary Gay Scanlon: “This hearing is a recognition and an insistence on that humanity, a recognition that the Flores decision also addressed.”

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

It’s inhumane. It’s traumatizing, and it’s particularly grotesque because this is then being done so private prison companies can make more profit.

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…

Permanent daylight savings time was repealed within a year because it didn't work.