The Inevitable Migrant PTSD Crash

Overcrowding at the Border Patrol Station in McAllen, TX in June 2019. Photo: Department of Homeland Security, Inspector General’s Office

A humanitarian crisis continues to burn at the U.S./Mexico border with no signs of relief, images of abuse, splashed across our screens for months now. And we’re not even seeing the worst of it. Our government is hiding it.

Thousands of people are fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries in Central America. It is their right to apply for asylum in the United States, but the American justice…