For people who witnessed the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, such an aggressive stance is all too familiar. I’m not suggesting that immigrants are being tortured in the horrific way that prisoners at Abu Ghraib were, but I do see parallels in the aggressive stance of Homeland Security agents and the message this carries abroad. Those hundreds of roundups wound up swamping the Abu Ghraib prison. General Mattis was eloquent in his public comments about Abu Ghraib. If he doesn’t, the United States may through the actions of his department lose far more than it gains.

Source: New York Times February 27, 2017 21:15 UTC