Valuing life more than borders
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 28, 2018
4 minutes
"We are people who believe in the worth of every human being," Elizabeth Warren said the other day, and I wondered for a moment what life would be like if that were true.
The more crucial question, however, is: How can we make it true?
Warren had just returned from McAllen, Texas, where she visited an "immigration processing center" -- a place where desperate human beings are stirred into the border bureaucracy and separated into categories -- immigrants, refugees, criminals -- and where children, including babies, are torn from their parents' arms, possibly forever.
This is "the law" at work
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