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Leonard Pitts: You can starve an ideal only so long before you kill it altogether

Pictures of Border Patrol flogging Haitian refugees contain so much of American history.

(Veronica G. Cardenas | The New York Times) People seeking asylum are seen crossing the Rio Grande into Del Rio, Texas on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. Haiti migration officials have asked the United States for a "humanitarian moratorium" even as they prepare to receive the first returnees from Texas. "Will we have enough to feed these people?"