Not to mention the same law was in place under her husband. And yes, her husband’s administration ‘separated families’ so this is all getting pretty ridiculous.
Via Daily Wire:
On Sunday, former first lady Laura Bush took to the pages of The Washington Post to attack the Trump administration’s immigration policy – in particular, the policy that ends with the separation of children from parents after arrest for illegal immigration. Bush was conspicuously silent during the entirety of the Obama administration, but she has spoken out from time to time on the Trump administration: she criticized women who voted for Trump, and she also criticized the administration’s school lunch policy.
She wrote:
I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
It’s pretty terrible, yes. But the only legal solution right now is to catch-and-release people coming across the border illegally with small children. That’s simply not feasible or smart. But according to Bush, to do anything else is akin to Japanese internment:
Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned.