As the Trump administration and its Republican enablers continue their policy of separating children from their parents at the border, Americans are reaching pretty far back to find historical analogies for the harm we’re doing, from Manzanar to the Old Slave Mart. (For their part, supporters of our country’s internment camps for children also seem to be hitting the history books: A federal public defender told CNN that, to ensure a fuss-free separation process, parents were falsely told their children were being taken away to bathe.) As many people have pointed out, the Trump administration’s inhumanity is shocking, but it isn’t anything new: people have been writing about the unique horrors of incarcerated children for as long as people have been incarcerating children.
from Stories from Slate https://ift.tt/2JQKVww
0 comments:
Post a Comment