NEW—The Trump WH and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed their “Zero Tolerance” border crackdown in 2018 knowing that it would separate migrant children from their parents and despite warnings that US was ill-prepared to deal w/ the consequences. washingtonpost.com/national/trump…
2) “The report called the Justice Department and the attorney general’s office a “driving force” in making sure the DHS aggressively increased the prosecution of adults arriving W/ children—casting doubt on statements that WH “never really intended” to separate families.”
3) “The Justice Department’s “single-minded focus on increasing immigration prosecutions came at the expense of careful and appropriate consideration of the impact of family unit prosecutions and child separations,”
4) Bottomline: cruelty was always part of the Trump WH / Trump DOJ plan toward migrant children.
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