From time to time I read charges that government agents are “jack-booted thugs.” I always dismissed these claims as delusions of the paranoid right — until now. Wrenching children away from desperate mothers is as thuggish as it gets.
The attorney general’s stated rationale that this is to deter illegal immigration is at best misguided, and surely horribly inhumane.
We were supposed to give up the practice that children should suffer for the sins of their parents at the end of the Middle Ages; apparently we have reverted to that standard. When will we bring back trials for sorcery?