Editorial: Locking up would-be immigrants is inhumane and unnecessary
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Oct 30, 2018
3 minutes
The United States has the dubious honor of maintaining the world's largest immigration detention system. Other countries may house more refugees and temporarily displaced persons, but we lock up the most people whose right to stay in the country is in dispute. Tens of thousands of people a day are held until they're deported or granted permission to stay by an immigration judge (or at least released on bond or into a sponsor's custody pending a
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