A Domestic Reign of Terror: Donald Trump’s Family Separation Policy

In A Domestic Reign of Terror: Donald Trump’s Family Separation Policy, the authors argue that Trump’s family separation policy is not only immoral but un-American. The authors lay out three rationales for arriving at this conclusion:  first, the family separation policy violates international norms that center on the welfare of children and families, and for that reason International Criminal Court can and should pursue a case against Trump Administration officials for crimes against humanity; second, immigrants are vital to the current U.S. economy, and the country only exists because of immigrants; to revile immigrants demonstrates ignorance and un-American sentiment. Third, “leaders” who champion systems that hurt children, families, and the communities they are sworn to protect are shameful and hypocritical, and their policies must be repudiated or else they will morally define us.  Trump’s violent and xenophobic policies perpetuated harm on immigrants and immigrant families. Moreover, they had a harmful effect on the economic and cultural fabric of the country that the Trump Administration claimed to be striving to protect. (Samantha Jones for The Immigrant Learning Center’s Public Education Institute)