Child abuse is now part of America's official immigration policy

It’s impossible to look at the Trump administration’s practice of migrant family separation and see it as anything other than what it is: institutionalized child abuse.

By now, there have been real horror stories: parents hearing their children screaming in the next room; a man who committed suicide when his three-year-old was taken from him; children kept in what Oregon senator Jeff Merkley described as a “”; a woman being  by a border patrol agent: “You will never see your children again. Families don’t exist here. You won’t have a family any more.”

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