Small children have been pulled from the arms of their parents and locked in far-flung facilities. When they will return to their families remains uncertain.
With President Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy of separating families detained while trying to cross the US border, the world witnessed a pageant of shocking cruelty. Certainly, callous inhumanity is not new to the nation’s immigration system. As conservatives and radicals alike have noted, President Obama furthered policies that militarized the border, criminalized immigrants and unjustly detained families.
