OPINION: Border separations are simply immoral
Is it necessary, in the year 2018, to write that it is wrong for any country — let alone the United States of America — to forcefully separate parents from their children?
Apparently so.
The Trump administration began doing just that at the beginning of May, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero-tolerance” policy that would send parents attempting to cross the southern border to jail where children cannot follow instead of putting them together in family detention centers. Since the change was implemented, hundreds of children, including toddlers, have been taken from their parents; the resultant confusion has created a backlog within the Department of Health and Human Services.