The judge moved on. “The respondent, after proper notice, has failed to appear,” he said for the record. And as she declared, “I’m going to die now,” he entered an order deporting her to China, and sent her back to the Glades County immigration jail.
That exchange, and her bleak experience in the immigration enforcement system, have come to light only through a fluke.
Forget the argument over whether to let more immigrants in and whether to legalize the people who are here already. We need to deal with the gulag we're operating for the people who have been caught under the current rules.
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