Opinion | Stop Imprisoning People Who Seek Refuge in the U.S.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Now she takes free French and vocational classes while her daughter goes to public school.
53% : Since the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003, the federal government has spent an estimated $333 billion on immigration enforcement.
47% : But immigration judges and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers get to decide these cases without having to offer much in the way of specifics; each year, they confine tens of thousands of people without so much as a parking ticket to their names, or any proof that they would vanish into the country if released.
25% : If these alternatives to detention models sound like wishful thinking in a country as allergic to social spending as the United States, consider that in 2016, the Obama administration tried an initiative similar to Belgium's system, the Family Case Management Program, which provided social services and referrals to qualifying families.

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