Eric the Blue

A picture of the 5-year-old Valley View student being detained by ICE Tuesday afternoon after school. According to our superintendent, the family has an open asylum case with a “no deport” order. Nevertheless, the pre-k student is “being held at a detention center in Texas.” A report by the local CBS affiliate, here. And Sahan Journal, here. The picture, in the Sahan Journal piece, of his teacher wiping away tears while listening to district officials talk about her student at a press conference today, is just about more than I can tolerate. Three other Columbia Heights students have been detained, two high-schoolers and a 10-year-old. What fresh hell next? “This is not the worst, so long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’”

It doesn’t make anyone safer, obviously. As has been said, the cruelty is the point.