Using children as pawns for political gain is something to be expected of rogue nations and terrorists, not from the president of the United States.
Our country should be a bastion of human rights and liberty, not a place where families are torn apart for political expediency.
The nightmare continues for many of the migrant children, who are still held in prison-like conditions while they await reunion with their parents. The harm cuts many ways for the children, their families, our worldwide reputation as a leader and our collective conscience. It raises the shameful ghosts of internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.
Now, the nation is in damage control mode, but the first objective should be to reunite the families as quickly as possible.
Then, those who take a sensible approach to immigration policy must defy the president’s daft, half-baked ideas and formulate reasonable approaches: no walls, and no systematic separation of families.