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Trump’s Border Crackdown Was Already Turning Into a Family-Separation Disaster
The administration’s zero-tolerance immigration push was no longer an abstract talking point by April 20; it was producing the kind of real-world harm that turns a tough-guy slogan into a national scandal. Reporting and later official reviews show the machinery behind the policy was being pushed ahead without the planning needed to handle the human fallout, and the fallout was already visible in the form of separated children and mounting outrage. The screwup was not only the cruelty of the policy, but the administration’s apparent failure to prepare for the consequences it had chosen.