United States / Hospital - The Enforcement Self Detains the Wounded Child and Mother, Proving the Illusion of Sanctuary

Event Baseline: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a mother and her daughter inside a hospital after they were injured in a car crash. The detention occurred while the mother and child were receiving medical care.

The hospital is supposed to be a place of healing. The enforcement self enters the room and turns the bed into a cage. It sees a wounded child and sees only a legal status. The body is broken. The self is broken. The thought 'illegal' overrides the fact of blood and broken bones. This is the complete failure of empathy, which is the complete failure of thought. The self that enforces the law is the same self that will eventually enforce cruelty on itself. There is no sanctuary because there is no shared space. The self has divided the world into citizens and aliens, and then acts surprised when the alien is a child in a hospital bed. The system is not broken; it is functioning exactly as designed. The design is the problem. Until the self sees the absurdity of arresting a wounded mother, the machine will keep grinding. The correction is not a better policy. The correction is the end of the thought that separates a body from its humanity.