Operation Phobos

Shakira wrote a personal essay about the 545 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

About two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered that they be found.

Poor communication and internal management decisions left the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ill-prepared to respond to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of family separations,...

"The government, the Trump administration, says that they have reunited 500 children with their parents. Do you know where this number is coming from? Do you believe them?" - Amy Goodman (Democracy Now).

Multiple media outlets reported this week that the federal government remains unable to find the parents of more than 500 children.

One of the dehumanizing administration policies Miller advanced was the “zero-tolerance” policy, a policy which caused a surge in the number of children and parents being separated from one another when caught crossing into the U.S. via the U.S.-Mexico border.  

According to The Washington Post, despite public outrage over the policy, “Miller defended the separations and had encouraged the president to enact them – telling others in the West Wing they would prove to be a migration deterrent.” Due to the immense blowback of the policy, President Trump ended its practice but as of August 2019, but Miller continued to defend it. 

Despite President Trump’s executive order ending the policy, the administration has continued to utilize covert practices to continue separating families at the U.S. border, as SPLC recently reported.

Even the judges find it absurd. The babies reach for their milk bottles. Little one year olds are being put on trial in America. So here’s a tiny question. What kind of a people are afraid of little babies?