Trump’s inhumane border policy tests America
IT IS A CRISIS DONALD TRUMP CREATED AND always had the power to solve. At detention facilities across the country, children are penned in cages, crying out piteously for the parents from whom they have been torn by border agents on orders from Washington. Some children may never see their mother or father again.
In a presidency marked by serial outrages, the scandal over family separations at the southern border has been unlike any other. The President didn’t just say something offensive, he intentionally turned the machinery of the state on some of the world’s most vulnerable humans. He applied his signature approach—brutal toughness—to his trademark issue, immigration. He greeted criticism of his
