Former First Lady Laura Bush is one of the latest people to express her dissatisfaction with the aforementioned immigration policy. Her Washington Post op-ed also published on Fathers’ Day.
Notable excerpts read as follows:
“Department of Homeland Security has sent nearly 2,000 children to mass detention centers or foster care. More than 100 of these children are younger than 4 years old.”
“I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.”
“In 2018, can we not as a nation find a kinder, more compassionate and more moral answer to this current crisis? I, for one, believe we can.”
Laura Bush’s full and complete opinion piece can be read here.
More on Trump Era Immigration Policies
Since the inception of President Trump’s 2016 campaign, he vowed to be “tough” on illegal immigration. A hardline immigration stance served as a central theme of his campaign; as many Americans have observed, the President is merely following through on his word.
