In a meeting w/U.S. attorneys that month, Sessions called for no mercy. “‘We need to take away children,’ Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants’ notes,” the NYT reported in 2020. His deputy, Rod Rosenstein, told prosecutors “that it did not matter how young the children were.”
Six years later, 1,400 children remain separated from their families due to the Trump admin’s policy.
Remember that children were ripped from parents without so much as a chance to hug goodbye.
“I had no idea where they were taking us,” one dad said. “I told my son to not be afraid and that everything was going to be OK. I told him to be a good boy.”
In several of the lawsuits filed by families against the Trump administration over the policy, parents described being told by federal immigration officials that they would never see their children again.
“Some were taken under the guise of being given baths,” The Washington Post reported in 2019. Some parents were even told that their children would be put up for adoption. #FamiliesBelongTogether
Family separation ad from the Biden campaign. Today in May 2018, Jeff Sessions stepped in front of cameras to announce it wld be official US policy to tear kids, including nursing infants and toddlers, from the arms of asylum-seeking parents. Hundreds remain separated. #FamiliesBelongTogether