Scholar: Americans Have Long Mistreated "Other" People's Kids

Americans love their children, agonizing about offering them a hopeful path to the future. But since the nation's beginnings, we have been at once sympathetic to images of childhood and unkind in our treatment of "other" people's children. For migrants at the southern border, this seeming paradox is playing out once again.

Americans love their children, agonizing about offering them a hopeful path to the future. But since the nation's beginnings, we have been at once sympathetic to images of childhood and unkind in our treatment of "other" people's children. For migrants at the southern border, this seeming paradox is playing out once again.