So now she and other Trump administration officials find themselves struggling to defend a family separation policy whose clear ambition is deterrence. The Trump administration hopes to skirt the rulings that got Obama officials into trouble by prosecuting immigrant parents at the border. At a hearing on May 4, Sabraw repeatedly asked whether the Trump administration had adopted the family separation policy to deter others. “And the government has not provided one.”On Wednesday, Sabraw ordered that the case against family separation can move forward, over the Trump administration’s objections. Implementing a family separation policy to deter other migrants “arbitrarily tears at the sacred bond between parent and child,” Sabraw wrote.

Source: Huffington Post June 07, 2018 23:26 UTC