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With over three million cases pending and wait times stretching past four years, America's immigration court crisis isn't dysfunction—it's design. The backlog functions as extrajudicial punishment, trapping asylum seekers in legal purgatory while politicians treat the chaos as a feature, not a bug.
U.S. schools employ 43,000 police officers but only 14,000 social workers. This security-first approach doesn't make students safer — it criminalizes childhood and pushes vulnerable kids out of classrooms and into courtrooms.
A legal doctrine older than the Constitution shields federal and state governments from lawsuits when their employees cause serious harm. It's time to end this protection racket that makes accountability impossible.
The United States sentences more children to die in prison than any other nation on Earth, with over 1,400 people serving life without parole for crimes committed before age 18. This barbaric practice disproportionately targets Black and brown youth while ignoring decades of neuroscience showing adolescent brains aren't fully developed.