When history reckons with Donald Trump, it won’t forget America’s role

Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute, recently told the National Catholic Reporter that we are going through “a dark night of the soul as a country.” 

Just last month, several children gathered in a courtroom to have their futures decided by a Texas judge. One was a six-year-old who pretended to fly an airplane; another was a three-year-old who played with a microphone. They were among 25 minors facing deportation hearings that day. 

Angel was one of them. Just 13 years old, he pleaded that it was “too dangerous” to be returned to Honduras, adding, “My mom and my entire family are here.” The judge ruled that Angel did not qualify for asylum and asked whether he wanted either a deportation order or would leave voluntarily. At that, Angel burst into tears crying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”  

The stories of those young Texas children are not the only examples of the cruelties inflicted upon immigrants by the Trump administration. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have murdered U.S. citizens and patrol our streets. Children wonder whether their parents will be home when they return from school. And many immigrants who have followed the rules are being deported not to their home countries, but to places like South Sudan, Eswatini and Rwanda. 

Earlier this year, Renée Good and Alex Pretti became household names when they were publicly executed on the streets of Minneapolis. In Biddeford, Maine, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a food delivery worker, was killed by an ICE officer in front of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Houston, Texas, saw Lorenzo........

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