Trump’s Most Inhumane Policy

When President Donald Trump uses federal funds to provide regular cash infusions to his failing businesses, or directs government benefits to people who flatter him and pay him money, his corruption is grotesque. But it’s not inhumane.

By contrast, the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant parents from their children, including infants, some of whom were lost for months or more, was always intended to be brutal. Anyone who has had a child, or been a child, intuitively understands how depraved the policy was. Experts predict that victims will suffer trauma and repercussions for the remainder of their lives. Yet the officials who approved and executed this policy seem unlikely to suffer legal consequences.