Milbank: What passes for concern in a Dickensian America
Donald Trump’s America has taken on a Dickensian pall.
The Trump administration floats a plan for tent cities — modern-day Hoovervilles to shelter the growing number of migrant children it is detaining.
A Honduran man fleeing violence kills himself in a Texas jail after U.S. authorities take his child from him — part of a Trump policy of separating illegal immigrants at the border from their children.
Immigration authorities force a high school senior in Iowa to return to Mexico — the country he left when he was 3 — where he is soon killed, his throat slit.
And in Congress, House Republican leaders fend off a “discharge petition” by Democrats and the meager group of GOP moderates attempting to force a vote on the Dream Act protecting children like the murdered teen.
Whatever the motives behind such policies, they have the appearance of abject cruelty — not a good look for Republicans as they go into midterm elections.
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