Portland Phoenix | The border control we have now hurts liberty

It’s easy up here in Maine to think the controversies at our borders are far-away concepts. That they're issues that affect Maine only in the most peripheral way, arguments and discussions and pain that are “from away” and not really our own.

They are not. Sure, the stories we see right now, that tug at our heartstrings and make us question the morality of the current administration — or as the case may be, that embolden Trump supporters and conservatives and make them feel good — those stories are at the southern border. They are the stories of “zero tolerance” policies that make all border-crossers immediately into criminals and burden the court system, stories of people shifting out of immigration law and caged up, stories of children — many of them extremely young — ripped from their parents and denied contact with them.