All the hoopla surrounding the caravan of Central Americans who are heading north to the United States to seek refugee status has brought back fond memories of one of the best experiences of my life — a Christmas show that I organized at the illegal-immigrant detention center in my hometown of Laredo, Texas.

At that time, which was the latter part of the 1970s, I was a young lawyer in Laredo. I had asked our local federal … Continue reading My Great Time in an Illegal-Immigrant Detention Center