One in five children dies before the age of 5. To escape military conscription, students risk cerebral malaria fleeing through jungles to Thai border jails.
It would help stop the "great drain of dollars out of this country", and the money would be used to fund border security (such as more border jails) and to reimburse Texans for the health-care and education costs of illegal immigrants.
But if refugees are stuck in a Border Patrol jail in Artesia, New Mexico -- pretty much in the middle of nowhere -- their chances of getting a lawyer plummet, and their chances of getting deported soar.
Instead of lavishing corporate welfare on Boeing, Raytheon and Corrections Corporation of America to militarize the border and jail non-criminal immigrants, we would get far more bang for the buck by sending a small fraction of that money to immigrant-sending regions in Mexico and Central America for jobs, housing, education and health care.
After a few days in a border-town jail, he was sleeping in abandoned houses, and asking a religious group for food.
She thought she had lost him again when he went to Israel for treatment, only to be arrested at the border and jailed for three years on suspicion of being a member of Islamic Jihad.
Caravan organizers say Trump has made it harder for migrants to seek asylum by threatening to detain foreigners seeking the protection, and in some cases turning immigrants back at the border or jailing them for months.
The stepped-up prosecution policy has proved to be one of the most controversial moves on immigration the Trump administration has made, largely because it has resulted in the separation of many families at the border: Those jailed on criminal charges must have their children taken from them and detained separately.
In addition, more than 6,000 soldiers - almost half of the army's manpower - have been deployed in hotspots around the country including border crossings, jails and areas with a strong "mara" presence.
Should the Home Office start seizing cartloads of the stuff at Britain's borders and jail the lorry drivers for drug trafficking offences?
