ICE and the Border Patrol consume $20 billion a year, but have not made us safer. Just the opposite
The threat is not coming from outsiders, writes Elizabeth F. Cohen.
President Joe Biden has been lauded for his empathetic comforter-in-chief responses to the ravages of the coronavirus, economic pain and gun violence. But anyone worried about the fate of non-citizens in the US, or at the border, has observed not empathy but a toxic mix of indifference and willful commitment to pointlessly punitive policies.
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