The Dark Side of Immigration Discretion

The NYT Editorial Board has issued a very strongly worded opinion piece on immigration: The Dark Side of Immigration Discretion.

In it, the editors tackle the issue of the current push to “crack down on recent migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemela” present in the United States. Specifically, they address “Operation Border Guardian, a grossly misnamed immigration-enforcement surge that went after people this country did not need to guard against.”

The editors claim that migrants who’ve aged out of protections afforded minors and those who have lost asylum claims are being “hunted” in a way that “taints all who touch it.” The Times is particularly appalled by the conduct of agents who have “seized students at home and on their way to school.” Student who are then “locked up while they appeal deportation orders, though they pose no threat or violence or flight.”

-KitJ