Every immigration reform proposal offered by anyone includes measures for increased border security. Mexicans are not the only victims of ‘border security’, although they are more frequently fatal victims, and more frequently abused than US citizens.

This kind of abuse starts with powerless people. Once a precedent is set, it escalates to other parts of the public—-until/unless there are consequences to the abusers.

At some point it can happen to me. It can happen to you. Unlikely, but not impossible. Less unlikely as time passes.

Awareness of police abuse is spreading, but it’s still rare, with all due respect to de Blasio, to see a politician willing to take on the law enforcement unions and risk being called soft on crime.