America Has a Long History of Separating Families
The native kids were forced to live in boarding schools.
Imagine, you travel hundreds of miles, crossing the ocean to escape danger, while holding your family by your side. You finally reach a place you believed was safe, but then the your children are taken away from you and you have no way of knowing if they’re okay.
Well, this is exactly what happened to countless families after the enactment of our President Elect’s “zero tolerance policy.”
In 2018,President Donald J. Trump Senior’s (R-Florida) policy was aimed at preventing immigrants entering the country illegally. Under this, anyone crossing the border illegally was criminally prosecuted. Since US law prohibits detaining children in federal jails with their parents, families who were caught entering the country illegally were separated. This meant that the parents were sent to criminal detention while the children were placed in government custody or shelter homes.
However, this is not a lone policy that does this. The United States has a history of making policies that separate children from their parents, going back to the nation’s beginning.
