THIS IS CNN: Trump whips up immigration storm over children.
Meanwhile: New York Times asks, “Did the Trump Administration Separate Immigrant Children From Parents and Lose Them?”
And: Republicans’ inhumanity at the border reveals their grand scam.
However: Trump Falsely Slammed for Obama-Era ‘Baby Deportation Bus’ and Photos of Children in Cages.
And Rich Lowry explains: “As usual, the outrage obscures more than it illuminates, so it’s worth walking through what’s happening here.”
For the longest time, illegal immigration was driven by single males from Mexico. Over the last decade, the flow has shifted to women, children, and family units from Central America. This poses challenges we haven’t confronted before and has made what once were relatively minor wrinkles in the law loom very large.
The Trump administration isn’t changing the rules that pertain to separating an adult from the child. Those remain the same. Separation happens only if officials find that the adult is falsely claiming to be the child’s parent, or is a threat to the child, or is put into criminal proceedings.
Who’s whipping up what?