The photo on the front of the Austin American-Statesman Tuesday morning shows a photo of U.S. Border Patrol agents speaking to Central Amercan asylum seakers.

The mother has her right hand behind her head, as police and agents ask detainees to do. In her left arm, she holds a little girl, maybe two years old.

The little girl has her own hands behind her head.

What a start to life. What questions must be going through that child’s mind. At her young age, she just knows that something wrong is ...