2019/11/03

The true cruelty of Trump’s family separation

The ACLU works incredibly hard to right a terrible wrong. I'd had no idea:

Only now do we understand the true cruelty of Trump’s family separation - The Washington Post:

Last week, hours before the deadline set by the judge, the government submitted the numbers to the American Civil Liberties Union, to whose volunteers it has fallen to clean up the mess created by President Trump, former attorney general Jeff Sessions, former homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and others.
Those wounds won’t heal easily, or ever. [1]
Even now, volunteers working under the coordination of the ACLU are going door to door in Guatemala and Honduras, seeking to ascertain whether families have recovered their children.

[1] When we do evil in the world, it will come back to bite us:

Many terrorism analysts say that the existence of CIA prisons, the use of torture and the military abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay were potent recruitment tools for a new generation of terrorists.