RICHARD PARKER                                 Author/Journalist

Forget ICE, the real problem is CBP​
EL PASO, Tex. -- BY DAY, HELICOPTERS fly overhead. Dusty patrol vehicles take up neighborhood parking lots. By night, klieg lights illuminate the new, 18-foot steel fence that snakes along the sand dunes. This strip of land thousands of miles long feels like occupied territory. And in a way, it is. I refer, of course, to the border between Mexico and the United States.
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American Internment Camps
TORNILLO, Tex. — Late last week a sprawling tent city opened in Tornillo, outside El Paso. It is surrounded by chain-link fencing topped with barbed wire and hemmed in between the Rio Grande and I-10. Like several others along the United States-Mexico border, the Tornillo facility is intended to hold children apprehended for entering this country illegally. But it’s also different. Whatever the federal government chooses to call it, this is an internment camp.​ [Read More]

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