What to do with thousands of lone youngsters making the hazardous journey from Central America to the US is shaping up to be an issue in this autumn’s congressional elections It was a shocking scene in a country that is ritualistically referred to as “a nation of immigrants”. On 1 July, in a confrontation captured by television news cameras, more than 200 protesters in the southern California town of Murrieta converged on three buses carrying immigration detainees, primarily children. Amid shouts of “Go back home,” the protesters made it impossible for the detainees to be delivered to the US Border Patrol station. The buses turned around and their passengers were taken to another station.Two weeks later, history was repeated as farce when Adam Kwasman, a Rep