April 27, 2018

ICE wants to rip apart immigrant families

Common Dreams - Immigrant rights groups were outraged on Friday as reports surfaced of a new proposal by officials at Trump's Department of Homeland Security to arrest, detain, and then prosecute adults who attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with their children—a "zero tolerance" policy that critics say would rip apart thousands of families.

The proposal would make "children as young as two and three years old pawns in a cruel public policy experiment," according to Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/27/cruel-public-policy-experiment-trumps-dhs-wants-protect-immigrant-children-arresting

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