WASHINGTON — The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all undocumented immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were “deeply concerned” about the children’s welfare.
But the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, made it clear what Mr. Trump wanted on a conference call later that afternoon, according to a two-year inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general into Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.
“We need to take away children,” Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants’ notes. One added in shorthand: “If care about kids, don’t bring them in. Won’t give amnesty to people with kids.”
Rod J. Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, went even further in a second call about a week later, telling the five prosecutors that it did […]
This is the same mentality that sent fellow humans to the gas chambers. Otherwise intelligent, educated people with children of their own could justify these behaviors is beyond sad and immorality rite large. How are Christian conservatives and other trump supporters able to justify the horrors of torture, prison w/o trial, and right-to-lifers sending children to concentration camps?
The same way “good” parents,good to the community, benevolent… can “justify” ongoing cruelty to their children…or designated “others”…the unacknowledged “bad” in them projected… Hitler was a vegetarian & good to his dog… Let’s include breaking the chains & improving our inner > outer safety, peace, lovingkindness. Then, others, are amazingly brave, understanding, & heroic…