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The official story of the Trump administration’s family separation
policy is that it came about as a result of “zero tolerance” in which
every person who could be charged with a crime would be, and that meant
that parents were arrested too, and since the parents were going to
jail, their kids had to be held somewhere.

But as Congress has delved into the process, grilling the Trump
officials who enforced the policy, an even crueler, more awful picture
has emerged.

It turns out that border guards charged “less than a third” of the
adults who crossed the border since the policy began – but that they preferentially brought charges against parents so they could take their kids away.

In other words, child separation wasn’t the inadvertent side-effect of a zero-tolerance policy.

There is no zero-tolerance policy. There is only a family separation policy.

https://boingboing.net/2018/08/03/deliberate-cruelty.html