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The Family Separation Blowback Is Now a Full-Scale Moral and Political Liability

By June 10, the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border crackdown was no longer just a policy fight; it was a growing public-relations disaster. The Justice Department had officially launched the hardline approach in April, and by this date the human consequences were impossible to miss: children were being separated from parents as part of a deliberate enforcement strategy. The result was mounting backlash that threatened to swamp the administration’s immigration message and deepen the impression of cruelty.

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First recorded Jun 10, 2018·Meaningfully updated Jun 10, 2018

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The Family Separation Blowback Is Now a Full-Scale Moral and Political Liability

By June 10, the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border crackdown was no longer just a policy fight; it was a growing public-relations disaster. The Justice Department had officially launched the hardline approach in April, and by this date the human consequences were impossible to miss: children were being separated from parents as part of a deliberate enforcement strategy. The result was mounting backlash that threatened to swamp the administration’s immigration message and deepen the im…

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The Family Separation Blowback Is Now a Full-Scale Moral and Political Liability

By June 10, the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border crackdown was no longer just a policy fight; it was a growing public-relations disaster. The Justice Department had officially launched the hardline approach in April, and by this date the human consequences were impossible to miss: children were being separated from parents as part of a deliberate enforcement strategy. The result was mounting backlash tha…

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