Up late

On a long drive back from a happy fambly weekend, we stopped for the night in ___________ and went to a friendly neighborhood multinational retailer to get some supplies before checking into a hotel: water, Guinness, herbal tea. It was Sunday, 10:30, and the store was packed with Latino families: men, women, and children.

Maybe people were just taking care of business before the week started. But Elaine suspected — and I suspect she was right — that people were shopping late on a Sunday night to avoid ICE agents, or at least to be together in case of an encounter with ICE.

What a country we’ve made for ourselves.