Dec. 2017 DHS "policy options" memo
This December 2017 memo listing 16 policy options for dealing with a "surge of illegal immigration" listed prosecuting parents and separating children as its first two proposals.
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They were just enforcing the law, not deliberately taking kids from their parents, administration officials claimed. That and other lies justified the policy that caused a scandal in early 2018. The policy seemed to have died, but family separation lives on.
