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Paul Waldman: The Trump administration’s immigration policies are impossibly cruel, but that’s the point

There won’t be a more humane set of policies coming out of this administration, because they have no interest in being humane.

A member of the Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border wall toward a group of people gathered on the U.S. side, near the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 29, 2018. U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months.