The unrelenting saga of family separation: What now?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-12-2018
Publisher
The Hill
Language
en-US
Abstract
Beginning in April, the Trump administration imposed a “zero-tolerance” policy aimed at deterring predominantly Central American families seeking safety and refuge at the southern U.S. border. The government’s “zero-tolerance” policy took as its mandate the decision to criminally prosecute every unauthorized entrant into the United States — an unprecedented exercise of law enforcement authority. Dubiously, the government claimed that a necessary and natural byproduct of this criminal prosecution was the separation of immigrant children from their parents.
Recommended Citation
Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes,
The unrelenting saga of family separation: What now?
,
in
The Hill
(2018).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/112
Publisher URL
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/401090-the-unrelenting-saga-of-family-separation-what-now
