Revealed: Rod Rosenstein advised there was no age limit on child separations

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/23/child-separation-migrants-prosecutors-rod-rosenstein


Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, advised US attorneys implementing the 2018 zero-tolerance policy that there could be no blanket ban on prosecuting migrant parents who had children under the age of five, the Guardian has learned.

The comments on a conference call in May 2018 privately shocked some border state prosecutors because, in effect, it meant that no child was too young to be separated from its parents under the policy, which called for all migrants entering the US illegally to face criminal prosecution.

The family separations that followed are seen today by experts as one of the gravest domestic human rights violations to have occurred under the Trump administration.

The policy was in place for six weeks and resulted in the separation of 2,814 children from their parents and guardians, about 105 of whom were under the age of five and 1,033 under 10.

*snip*

[empedocles]

1. 'What goes around, comes around' - rosenstein is now 'a person of interest'.

Will not sleep as well

[gratuitous]

2. Crimes against humanity don't come with a statute of limitations

Plan accordingly, Rod.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. The Truth will win out in the end.

[Faux pas]

4. Kickin' with disgust!

Shame and

[UTUSN]

5. K&R

[cos dem]

6. When Biden takes over, can we just charter a plane directly to the Hague?

Load up Rosenstein, Miller, Trump, Cuccinelli, Wolfe, and everyone else complicit in this facsist shitshow.

In fact, don't they normally fly the president home on AF1 (which isn't really AF1 at that point, since the president is not on board)? But, they could just file direct to the Hague instead of Marm-a-largo.