Editor, Gazette-Journal:

“We have to break up families,” Trump claimed, because of “bad laws that the Democrats gave us,” reported CNN. 

Trump knows in reality there is no such law and with his party in the majority, even if there was such, they could quickly change the law or the president could sign a resolution putting it on hold till changing could occur. Instead, it’s this administration’s decision to criminally prosecute all immigrants, some of which have merely approached the border and asked for asylum, then have had their children separated from them and placed into child concentration camps.

Just by itself this is a horror. Forcibly separating children from their mothers is really chilling, but then expecting us to believe that it is someone else’s fault is even worse. This fiction was compounded when Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen tweeted, “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Perio...