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Immigration,
Government

Jun. 29, 2018

Government mustn't forget about homeless Americans

A June 23 headline in the New York Times says it all: “Young Children Taken from Their Parents: It Doesn’t Just Happen to Immigrants.”

Gideon Kanner

Professor of Law Emeritus
Loyola Law School

USC Law School

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Government mustn't forget about homeless Americans
A homeless encampment in downtown Los Angeles, March 12, 2014. (New York Times News Service)

As the readers of this newspaper may know, your faithful servant is a man of limited intellectual resources and as such easily baffled by the doings of our betters who govern us. A case in point are the two seemingly unrelated phenomena that have lately burst into public consciousness, causing widespread strife and dissention: the plight of the homeless and the treatment of undocumented immigrants coming across our southern border in pursuit of a better life.

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