A few pieces of news from my latest. The lesson of family separation debacle wasn't that govt went too far separating families, an Admin official told me. Rather it was that “we need to be smarter if we want to implement something on this scale” again. 1/ newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Since the middle of July, a group of twenty government officials has been gathering each week at the headquarters of Customs and Border Protection to discuss what the Trump Administration should do in the aftermath of the failed zero-tolerance policy. 2/
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Did the outcry over family separation surprise the Administration? Yes, official said. “The expectation was that the kids would go to Office of Refugee Resettlement, that the parents would get deported, & that no one would care.” end/
