We Would Keep Them in Mexico for Years?

   I've a friend who came to America as an asylum refugee, coming from Columbia after living there shortly, but being originally from Venezuela.
   He has a sister who he says also came seeking asylum. He tells me she has been here five years awaiting an asylum hearing.
   And, I think of the Trump plan, to leave them in Mexico while their hearings are pending.
  Where would my friend's sister be, if she had been told to wait in Mexico? Five years later, would she still be there?
   Suggesting they wait in Mexico is a good way to sidestep justice. If you can keep them in Mexico for so long, you can effectively keep them from coming. If your goal is not justice, but rather to prevent them from coming, this becomes a clever way to deal with them.
  A cruel and unjust way to deal with them.
  We wonder about the values of our president. We wondered about them before he was elected. Ah, but he will be fine, we said. And, now that he is elected and serving, rather than seeing the wrongness of his ways, we endorse his values. We see no wrong in keeping the immigrants in Mexico five years waiting their immigration hearings.
   Good idea, we say.