The senator from the state that made Fort Sumter famous doesn't, "care if they [immigrants] have to stay in these detention facilities for 400 days."

Lest you think he, himself, is the problem, consider his 74 per cent approval rating in his home state.

My parents had the good sense to get me out of the South in 1962, when I was just three years old. And, to my own credit, I insisted on getting out of there before my own two children were born. It was perhaps the most sensible thing I've ever done.