If She does no Harm by being Here, What Just Law Kicks Her Out?

   She remains at the church, her request that her case be reopened having been denied. Vicky Chavez, with her two young daughters is sheltering from grasp of immigration officials at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City.

   Border agents have made it a practice not to capture immigrants when they are in churches, and hospitals and other sensitive places. 

   I will wonder on Chavez's case. What harm would she do, if she were set free? What damage would it be, if she and her children were allowed to remain? She is hardly a thief, hardly a drug runner. If those are the elements we seek to screen out with our immigration policies, then why refuse to let this one stay? Why reject this mother and her two children?

   What means more to us -- rule of law, or whether the rules are just? Is it just to throw this mother and her two children out? Yes, rule of law is important, but it is also important to get rid of laws that are unjust. If someone is doing no harm by being here, what just law would kick them out?