Rod Rosenstein is real sorry about all those kids
Jan 15, 2021 at 3:42 PM
By ELIZABETH DYE
“We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period,” former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted indignantly on June 17, 2018 ...
“I have put in place a ‘zero tolerance’ policy for illegal entry on our Southwest border. If you cross this border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It’s that simple,” then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on May 7, 2018. “If you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you. If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law.”
... later that month on a phone call with U.S. Attorneys, the AG was more clear. “We need to take away children,” he said, leaving no doubt that his intention was to disincentivize immigration with the threat of seizing migrant children.
Yesterday the Justice Department’s Inspector General released a scathing report on the family separation policy officially in place between April 6 and June 7, 2018. Prior to that, U.S. Attorneys had endeavored not to arrest adults crossing the border with minors, and there was no preparation for an abrupt policy shift that would necessitate taking thousands of children into government custody ...
Today, there are 611 children still not reunited with their families — an outcome which was entirely predictable ...
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