America’s immigration system is broken

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses

LESS than ten miles separate two rooms in McAllen, a modest, low-slung city on the Mexican border. The first is Ursula, an immense warehouse which squats behind a high brick wall, almost invisible from the street. It is the largest immigration-processing facility in America, and holds children taken from their parents under a policy that President Donald Trump’s administration initiated in April and then ordered stopped last week. Inside the facility, children lie on mats beneath bright lights that never go out, wrapped in Mylar blankets, caged behind chain-link fences.

Nine miles north, clad in a modest stucco, is the second building—the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Centre, where migrants who have been released from detention can rest, shower, change clothes and have a hot meal before their onward journey further into the United States. Most have travelled for weeks from Central America, though some...Continue reading

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