Valuing life more than borders

"We are people who believe in the worth of every human being," Elizabeth Warren said the other day, and I wondered for a moment what life would be like if that were true.

The more crucial question, however, is: How can we make it true?

Warren had just returned from McAllen, Texas, where she visited an "immigration processing center" -- a place where desperate human beings are stirred into the border bureaucracy and separated into categories -- immigrants, refugees, criminals -- and where children, including babies, are torn from their parents' arms, possibly forever.

This is "the law" at work