1600 border detainees were sent to federal prison? 

Sessions and Trump can get out of the human rights abuses if they simply give them ankle bracelets and send them on their way with their children. Otherwise this is pure insanity. Crossing the US border is a misdemeanor.

The border crossers were here to find work as a day laborer and now housing them in federal prison will cost the US millions. The entire idea of any punitive measures other than deportation is escalating out of control. This is starting to sound like the Nazis. There needs to be international inspectors now. Please.

Jeff Sessions needs to get over the verbal abuse of Donald Trump and get some backbone. These people need to be given a bus ticket to migrant worker housing for harvesting. That is all that needs to be done. Please. If any are known criminals by all means detain them, but, this is getting ridiculous and foolish.

Most Americans don’t realize how detaining people, especially in a federal prison, can escalate out of control. If a border detainee is roughed up by another prisoner and fights back, that goes on their prison record. After a time someone who might mix it up in a bar room brawl on a Saturday night finds themselves with a criminal record and a lengthy stay in prison because he or she defended their pride. 

These people do not speak English and will not assimilate into a prison population well. Rikers Island has these issues at times. This is not the way to handle border crossers. Send them on their way.

Trump and Sessions are perpetuating their own problems. This has gotten out of hand and the country is suffering international scrutiny for no reason at all. Border crossers are the price Americans pay for freedom and separating them from their families and putting them in federal prison is not the answer. It never has been. Believe me working as migrant laborers is no picnic and has its own downside. If border crossers stay to work as a migrant laborer, what they left behind is a nightmare. The USA needs to pursue the nightmare they are running from not the people running.