One story about a Russian couple illustrates perfectly the acrid catastrophe smoldering in the dungeons run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A foreign-policy disaster is looming along the southern U.S. border, involving the treatment of asylum-applicants—not from various South American trouble-spots this time, but rather from Vladimir Putin’s Russia.New York Times
. It’s about a married couple, Mariya Shemiatina and Boris Shevchuk, both practicing physicians in Russia, who faced arrest for posting criticisms of Putin’s war in Ukraine. They fled to Mexico, drove to a U.S. port of entry, turned over their passports, requested asylum—and found themselves handcuffed, shackled, sent to separate immigration detention centers, treated horribly by guards, and hit up by a judge for a $30,000 bond as a condition for their release.
This is the acrid catastrophe smoldering in the dungeons run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The case of the two doctors and many other all-too-similar cases are appalling not just on their own standing but for the image of America that they broadcast to the rest of the world.President Biden has frequently portrayed international politics as a competition between democracy and authoritarianism, seeing the main task of U.S.
Many of the Russians fleeing Putin’s tyranny—a brain drain amounting to nearly 1 million—may someday return to their homeland and help rebuild a new Russia from the rubble of what Putin has ravaged. It would be good—it would be in our national-security interests—if they had fond memories of their time in the U.S., saw our political system as something to emulate , or at the very least viewed us as partners , not as hostile rivals or enemies.
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