Improving immigration reform would help out ALL of those countries.

Meet a few legal immigrants and talk to them about how damned hard it is to move here and live here, and how easy it is to be deported, and then ask yourself if maybe improving immigration across the board would actually, GASP, lower illegal…

They may not sneak in as frequently or easily, but they do indeed sneak in. I personally know a guy from Russia who snuck in by stowing away on a cruise ship. He has since corrected the situation, but it happens.

Sooooo, basically the same thing happens to these kids as happens to kids everywhere else the world when people get deported? Isn't the kids leaving the country with the parents an option so they don't have to be separated?

28 students with mattresses...how many mattresses? 28? Less? More? The cleaning fee was for...just the removal of the mattresses? Were they destroyed? Dumped? Cleaned for reuse? People seem to think this was just to have the mattresses themselves cleaned, but Columbia states: As our earlier statement notes,…

Things that Columbia should not be involved with:

The problem with articles like this is that you can't support one cause and not the other if you're a public institution. I'm going to go throw garbage all over the campus to protest that they don't let homeless people sleep in the dorms over winter break. Does that sound like they should pay for it because "they got…

Why shouldn't they pay? They are littering. Someone, apparently not them, has to clean it up.

Normal internet dickishness?

"Kill yourself" is an unreasonable, inexcusable, asshole thing to say, but it is not a "death threat."

Are these supposed to be examples of the death threat tweets? Because they're death threats in the same way that saying "go fuck yourself" is a rape threat.

You don't understandd how the internet works. What you are thinking is pretty much impossible. Ban a whole ISP because one person using it is an idiot? Riiiight.

Actually no.

I hope she doesnt. Speaking up when you see a public problem is a good thing.

The article specifically mentions "property crime" as one of the major reasons for women being incarcerated. I see property crime and fraud as a definite threat to society. It is also a crime that usually involves aforethought and the perpetrator weighing the punishment against the reward and deciding the punishment…

Yeah, and by focusing on getting women out of prison, it implies that either women are more innocent, or they're more childlike and can't handle prison.

So true.

Yeah, this'll totally win over the naysayers who don't believe us when we say feminism is about equality.

Ding ding ding ding. We have a winner. Making about women means people won't listen and a discussion about not locking up violent offenders is so overdue. Why derail it?

I don't really see why the focus has to be on women here; just non-violent offenders in general.

Women are like children. They cannot be held accountable for their actions. They are delicate and should be protected and kept out of prison. They cannot even tell the difference between right and wrong anyway.