The recent separation of families produced many self-righteous protests; over and over we hear the critiques shout, this is not what we are as a nation. If we really want to know what we are as a nation, when it comes to separating families, then we owe it to ourselves to read the article by
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN, published June 24, 2018.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/24/us/us-long-history-of-separating-families-trnd/index.html
Even history of not too long ago shows that children were taken from their families under other Presidents as well, in that regard President Trump is not unique. Many of the little wars we partake, openly or covertly, around the world result also in family separations. These latest family separations are as gruel as the rules of law facilitating them. But, please let us not say, this is not what we are as a nation.
While the writer of this linked to article states the obvious, it is, after all, the view of an historian.
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Here is more on the migration crisis.
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