The US government keeps over a thousand refugee minors prisoner in Tornillo, Texas. To make sure they will stay a long time, the US demands fingerprints and background checks for everyone that lives with the family that wants to sponsor them.

Demanding someone's fingerprints is asking too much. I would not give my fingerprints for almost anything unless I am coerced into it. Because that demand drives off possible sponsors — and not to mention that someone else living there may not dare call the attention of the deportation thugs — this policy is a gratuitous cruelty to the prisoners.

It is a mistake to call them "children". Some of them are 16 or 17 years old, which is too old to be called that.