March 6, 2023 6:30 am

Our Dickensian Border Policy

An open border leads to the kind of exploitation of children we thought we’d left behind.

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A U.S. Border Patrol Agent escorts two asylum-seeking unaccompanied minors from Central America as others take refuge near a baseball field after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on rafts in La Joya, Texas, March 19, 2021.

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‘I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.”

Thus relates David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.