$700+ per day per person for immigrant detention?

[MineralMan]

7. Yes. I know what their attitude is.

I'm suggesting, though, that we be kind instead. It would cost us no more that it is costing us now, and we'd be welcoming asylum-seekers, which is the humane thing to do.

I want to see the USA being a model for the world, not a model of ugliness. That's what we are under Donald Trump.

When the Hmong refugees arrived in Minnesota, they were met with people who wanted to help them find their way here and adjust to their new home. That began in the 1970s, and now Minnesota is home to the largest population of Hmong people outside of Asia. We've done similar things for the Somali refugees who have arrived here.

In both cases, there have been some problems but, in time, most of those have been solved, and we're now seeing the third generation of Hmong-Americans growing up. Their parents have opened businesses and we have a Hmong immigrant as the State Senator in my state Senate district. A third of my neighborhood is now made up of Hmong families who have bought homes and are raising families.

That is how the United States should be treating those who come here to escape horrible situations somewhere else. Let's help them, not jail them. We've done it before, and there are models for how to make that happen. The current situation is horrible.