U.S. Plans Mass Deportation of Illegal Central American Migrants -- "Typically, the migrants, many of them women and children, turn themselves in at the border and make asylum claims. U.S. authorities then release them, often to live with relatives here, while their cases are adjudicated."

Our country has got the firm right

to send children back to the night

of terror and loss

without any gloss --

for reasons too callous and trite.