Thus has the top law enforcement official in the United States enshrined callousness as administration policy. Mr. Sessions’s policy of separating parents and children is intentionally and unapologetically punitive. Proclaiming a new policy of “zero tolerance,” he rebranded the United States as a crueler place than the countries from which people are fleeing. Yet Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions propose a breathtaking innovation: wrenching every small child away, as a matter of policy, from his or her family.

Source: Washington Post May 08, 2018 23:48 UTC