Trump immigration detention is not only a policy choice. It has become a moral test for America’s democracy. When a legal resident with a green card can be pulled aside at the airport, locked in an ICE facility, denied basic hygiene and then quietly deported, people do not only ask whether the law was followed. They ask what happened to the idea of due process, human dignity and constitutional rights. The comments under the YouTube video of her story show that many Americans feel the same. They use words like “kidnapping,” “internment,” “illegal,” and “sickening.” That language tells us that … Continue reading Trump immigration detention and America’s democratic image