Foreign Policy Magazine

A Blow to the Soul

A generation of innocents is going to grow up traumatized because of America’s immigration laws.

Donald Trump has a heart full of fear. The world terrifies him. It’s not just the terror threat he overstates or his overt dread of facts, science, or democratic processes.

No, Trump also apparently fears schoolchildren in sunny American suburbs—immigrants and refugees often left with nothing but the scars of war. We know this because he has prioritized turning the might of the most powerful government in the world against these innocents. Rather than addressing the threats posed by an ill-intentioned Russian government or following up on his tough talk about a rising China, the new president has introduced programs and protocols that will take a terrible toll on children all over the country.

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