Editorial Board
The Madness of U.S. Immigration Policy, Continued
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(Clarifies flight risk of nondetained immigrants in paragraph five.)
Imagine if Congress mandated that an arbitrary number of jail cells be filled with prisoners -- regardless of the crime rate. Authorities would be required to incarcerate people, no matter the circumstances or the affront to human rights. That’s basically the state of immigration detention in the U.S.