The Washington Post recently published a revealing and heartbreaking story about forced separation of children from their illegal immigrant parents — not the Trump-ordered fiasco we've watched over recent weeks at the U.S.-Mexico border, but in the Midwest as the result of brutal ICE raids that have ripped families apart under U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush before him. It's beautifully written, worthy of a literature award if not a Pulitzer for journalism.
One line leapt out at me: "Who benefits from this?"
Nora, an 18-year-old girl who lost both her parents to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and is now raising her 12-year-old brother like something out of a dark 1970s ABC Afterschool Special or a Dave Eggers story, wondered why the U.S. government carries out such vicious policies and tactics, like using offers of free food to lure poor migrants into the clutches of heavily-armed immigration goons.