Since 1968, the United States has been part of the U.N. Refugee Convention, which requires us to deeply consider claims of asylum. When a person comes to our border to ask for safety, and they face a legitimate fear of violence in their homeland, we must offer asylum.

The Trump administration once again defies international law by creating conditions that try to deter families from seeking asylum: They now intend to separate parents from their children, keeping all in detention facilities.

On May 7, you were at the border and you talked about security, not about our common humanity.

You gave into Trump’s thinking that the people who cross our border are criminals.

Jenita Graham: What Sen. Hassan didn’t see at U.S.-Mexico border

Hassan is an embarrassment.

Washington, a charmingly scenic town about 40 miles west of Concord, boasts that it’s the first town in the brand new United States named after George Washington. Its picturesque common is, at 1,507 feet in elevation, the highest town center in the state, and its 1,100 or so hearty residents are scattered around nearly 50 square miles of rugged landscape crisscrossed with rural, often-unpaved roads.

Its Currier and Ives perfection, though, masks the fact that Washington is also home to a nest of criminal scofflaws headed by a ruthless gang leader, one Barbara Gaskell.

…After sentencing Gaskell to the 21st-century equivalent of a public stockade, state bureaucrats informed her and other town officials that a new election will be held at a date chosen by the state and that the secretary of state “will appoint an election monitor to directly observe all aspects of your conduct” in that election.

Yes, an “election monitor”! The sort of thing usually reserved for scofflaw nations considered unlikely to adhere to the law!

Katy Burns: Small-town criminals, or so says the state

hmmm