What’s Happening at the Border Is a Humanitarian Crisis, Not a Political One
The Thousands of Children Fleeing Central America Have Nothing to Do With Our Ongoing Debate Over Immigration
Less than 48 hours after the nation collectively chanted “USA!” for the national soccer team in the World Cup last week, a much smaller group of Americans in Murrieta, California, used the exhortation for a very different purpose. Carrying homemade signs reading, “Return to sender,” “Save our children from diseases,” and “Bus illegal children to White House,” protesters used the slogan to turn back busloads of youthful arrivals from Central America destined for a new detention center in their community.
The two moments project what I believe is the Janus face …
