Trump cites as a negotiating tool his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents
Anyone still pretending this is about anything other than whether it is morally acceptable to separate children from their families as a deliberate negotiating tactic is simply lying to themselves. Either you think that anything done to "them" is fair game, or you don't.
Because I know it will be brought up.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on FBI, phantom law on migrant kids
Anyone still pretending this is about anything other than whether it is morally acceptable to separate children from their families as a deliberate negotiating tactic is simply lying to themselves. Either you think that anything done to "them" is fair game, or you don't.
Because I know it will be brought up.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on FBI, phantom law on migrant kids
AP Fact Check Wrote:THE FACTS: It’s not Democrats’ law. There is no law mandating the separation of children and parents at the border.
The separations are a consequence of a Trump administration policy to maximize criminal prosecutions of people caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally. That means more adults are jailed, pending trial, so their children are removed from them. Before the policy, many people who were accused of illegal entry and did not have a criminal record were merely referred for civil deportation proceedings, which generally did not break up families.
The policy was announced April 6 and went into effect in May. From April 19 to May 31, 1,995 children were separated from 1,940 adults, according to Homeland Security statistics obtained by The Associated Press. The figures are for people who tried to enter the U.S. between official border crossings.
Trump’s repeated, but nonspecific references to a Democratic law appear to involve one enacted in 2008. It passed unanimously in Congress and was signed by Republican President George W. Bush. It was focused on freeing and otherwise helping children who come to the border without a parent or guardian. It does not call for family separation.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg