What an Outrage! Lock Them Up!

  I think on how we say the immigrants do not show up for their court hearings. Is it good, then, to throw them in detention centers, as we call them (for we fear calling them prisons)? The nerve of them. If they are not going to show up, we'll show them; We'll haul them all off to jail.
  I don't know, it almost seems better to put them on monitors, or some such, in order to keep track of them. Would monitors be too expensive? I don't know.
   Whatever else should be done, I do know this: We should speed up the process. They are brought in for their initial hearings, and dates are then set months in the future. Why? Why not hold the hearings as soon as possible?
   And, I think of us, and wonder if we think there is some kind of injustice that they are free while awaiting their hearings. They are going about life in America as if they have done no wrong. They are enjoying all the fruits of what they came for. They are living free and easy and getting away with it even though they came illegally and shouldn't be here. Is that our attitude? Is that the real reason we lock them up? They came illegally and we are just letting them run around free! We won't have any more of this! What an outrage! Lock them up! Don't let them get away with this!
  Forbid that the poor of other nations, if they seek refuge here, should be allowed to run around free.