THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION’S DISHONEST REPORT ON IMMIGRATION DETENTION

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Donald Trump has been president for going on three years. Yet the U.S. Civil Rights Commission remains under the control of leftists who use it as a platform dishonestly to attack Trump’s policies.

I hope this will change in January, when President Trump has the opportunity to appoint two members. In the meantime, the Civil Rights Commission remains a playground for his enemies on the far left.

Consider a report the Commission issued last week on immigration detention facilities called “Trauma at the Border: The Human Cost of Inhumane Immigration Policies.” It is a misleading and dishonest document. Peter Kirsanow, a commissioner who dissented from the report, provides the details at NRO. (See also the dissent of his fellow commissioner Gail Heriot). 

Kirsanow points out that the commissioners didn’t even visit a detention facility. Their outrage is based solely on media reports and a public comment hearing in Washington, D.C. attended primarily by immigration advocates. In fact, the Commission received testimony from only three former detainees, two of whom complained of treatment they received during the Obama Administration.