Editorial: Cruelty was the point of Trump’s immigration policy. With Abbott, it’s a bonus.

So what will you do? You are a 36-year-old farmer in a poor, violence-ridden Central American country. Trying to convince a small savage living from barren fields, you support your family with the $4 a week you brought home during a miserable harvest season. You and your wife don’t eat, and yet you watch your two young children go to bed hungry every night.

Maybe, just maybe, you look into their faint eyes and decide to do something drastic. You may have embarked on a dangerous 2,000-mile trek towards a...