[lazaroclapp]

Working on border security because you want to keep armed groups out is perfectly reasonable and admirable, working on border security because you want to keep poor and terrified people fleeing armed groups out is pretty detestable. Unfortunately, I don't believe the current U.S. administration makes that distinction (and it is very arguable whether the U.S. military abroad, or even the U.N. peace-keepers do, but that's another story).

When the institutional reaction to a reporter fleeing death threats from agents of his government, by voluntarily surrendering at your border and asking for asylum, is to lock him up, then I can see reasons to criticize those working to empower said institutions (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/07...).