Their Own Little World

Want to know what’s important to lefties these days? The Washington Post has a four-part, front-page series, opening here, about health care in immigrant detention centers. Here are some examples:

But they are not terrorists. Most are working-class men and women or indigent laborers who made mistakes that seem to pose no threat to national security: a Salvadoran who bought drugs in his 20th year of poverty in Los Angeles; a U.S. legal U.S. resident from Mexico who took $50 for driving two undocumented day laborers into a border city. Or they are waiting for political asylum from danger in their own countries: a Somali without a valid visa trying to prove she would be killed had she remained in her village; a journalist who fled Congo out of fear for his life, worked as a limousine driver and fathered six American children, but never was able to get the asylum he sought.

I’ll bet a lot more are in the first category, outright criminals, than in the second, people with very sketchy claims to be political refugees. And a large majority of these people could be out of these detention centers in a day if they accepted immediate deportation.

If they don’t like the health care, they can go home. I’m sure the health care for Salvadoran peasants back home would put ours to shame.