Lying To Make Friends

The latest news in immigration circles is that immigration enforcement keeps up under the Obama administration much as it did under Bush, only more efficiently. (I suppose the new administration does not struggle as much as the old over how to appear tough on immigration enforcement while still ensuring a shadow class of underpaid and underprotected workers.) So the announcement that immigration detention centers across the country are going to be reformed and finally subject to some oversight is very, very welcome news. Unfortunately, if enforcement continues without any comprehensive immigration reform, it is hard to see how a few more beds and a sliver of humanity in these so-called civil detention centers will make much of a difference.

-AS