The separations, the protest marches

Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets in over 700 U.S. cities on Saturday, marching in solidarity and protest of the Trump administrations' treatment of would-be immigrants and asylum seekers, galvanized by the separation of children from parents.

Here's how seriously the New York Times editorial board takes this from their editorial on Saturday:

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"The marches taking place across the country this weekend are really about the soul of America.  Forcibly separating children from their parents is not about 'deterrence,' or the legal technicalities of law, or illegal immigration, or anything else President Trump has claimed to justify his latest and most odious outrage.  'It's about "Cruelty and perfidy secretly paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation," to borrow from the Declaration of Independence.'

"No, the United States does not have clean hands:   It has tolerated many inequities and atrocities throughout its history, toward Native Americans, blacks, Japanese, and women, among others.   Yet against that is the tradition in American law, culture and practice to defend the weak, to welcome the other, to give refuge to the oppressed and to refuse to acquiesce when a government acts against basic dictates of conscience.

"The Trump administration has committee a gross offence.   It is the duty of every decent American to demand that it promptly reunite these children with their parents."

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Amen.