Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Relembrando as separações da famílias na fronteira dos EUA

Trump didn’t invent family separation, but his administration was willing to try it, por  Nick Miroff e Sari Horwitz (Washington Post):

It was an idea conceived by senior immigration enforcement officials and U.S. border agents who had confronted the migrant crisis of 2014. By ramping up criminal prosecutions and separating families who entered the country illegally, they said, the government could stop the influx.

Their idea went to top Obama administration officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security. Then it went into a drawer, like a blueprint for a weapon too terrible to use.

The Trump administration took office willing to go deep into the government’s immigration enforcement arsenal — even at the risk of triggering a political and humanitarian crisis.

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