around particularly how the drug war ends up scooping folks into american prison ls. and i kept thinking in this case, that notion that the crimes for which people are being detained in this case are so often status offenses, i wonder if it raises or ought to raise our ethical concerns to an even more heightened level, not that we shouldn t also be concerned with the human rights of those who commit other sorts of crimes. it s sort of a cut to the chase question. one thing i researched in the giant war on drugs is it began in the 1800s with laws against chinese immigrants. we didn t want to put them in jail because they were chinese and racist and threat to the american jobs. so we said let s find a trn to put them in jail to thinly veil the fact that we re putting them on jail in racially social control. so we came up with opium laws they didn t say we re going to put you in jail because you re