The world's smallest violin could be heard across the country in a New York Times article detailing the suffering of illegal aliens who are detained for very short periods of time:

Surrounded by high fencing, the South Texas Family Residential Center, as it is officially known, has a basketball gym, a school for the children, a state-of-the-art medical clinic and a beauty salon.

How can people exist like this?  Is the basketball gym official NBA size?  There are primary schools, but no colleges or graduate schools.  And are the beauty salons equipped to do the Brazilian and other kinds of Central and South American waxes that undocumented immigrants really need?

But in interviews last month, women who had been here for months said the time in detention with no defined end had taken a severe toll, leaving mothers despondent and young children worried and confused. “I would be lying if I said they didn’t treat us well,” said Y.G.G., a 27-year-old woman who has been at the camp here since February with two children, ages 9 and 6. She said she had fled Honduras after vengeful drug traffickers murdered five of her relatives and told her that she was next.

You see, every immigrant has a legitimate reason for being here.  It must be quite an extensive network of drug traffickers who could track Y.G.G. to any part of Honduras, in every city and village.  It must be really extensive because Y.G.G. didn't go to Nicaragua, or El Salvador, or Mexico.  It's clear the only place she can be safe from them is in America, which justifies her being allowed to stay.

R.P.C., 26, said she had left El Salvador after gunmen in her town told her 12-year-son that he could either join their gang or die.

Same story.  If gunmen threaten a person in the one small town they live in, their only chance to escape is to come to America, because if they moved to any of the other hundreds of small towns throughout Latin America, the gunmen would find them.  Don't we have a moral obligation to accept every person who claims that, somewhere else in the world, he or she was threatened by a gunman?

“But I can’t sleep because I have such a headache from thinking about being trapped in here,” she said. “My children get so sad, and they ask me, ‘Mama, when will we get out of here?’ After all they went through, they are traumatized again.”

 Immigration officials say the average stay in Dilley is now 22 days.

Can you imagine crossing the border illegally, and then being detained for three whole weeks, and then a whole day after that?  You could be missing part of a government-subsidized college semester.  You could be missing several welfare and food stamp checks.  You could be missing a trip to Disney World or the Circle Line around Manhattan.  Is it really fair to detain undocumented immigrants in these shopping mall-like facilities for three whole weeks?

When migrants arrive, they go to storerooms stacked with new clothing and sneakers to select outfits to keep. Mothers are supplied with diapers, bottles and strollers.  A staff pediatrician performs weekly wellness checks. They live with their mothers in modular barracks among open yards that torrential rains have turned into mud flats. Bunk rooms, which hold 12 people each, have refrigerators, televisions and telephones.  Recreation specialists lead Zumba classes. 

This is truly barbaric – Zumba classes?  If you came all the way here from another country, crossed a dangerous desert, and swam the Rio Grande, wouldn't you have the expectation of pilates, or at least yoga classes?

Legal assistants have been barred from bringing food and banned for wearing underwire bras.

No underwire bras?  Do you think security is so bad in these camps that garroting is a problem?

Exit question: the Times publsihed this article to highlight the terrible condition that illegal aliens experience for 22 days on average.  Do you think that by describing conditions there, they are so out of touch that they honestly believed they would elicit sympathy for these illegals?

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