Laura Bush: Taking Kids From Parents At Border Is "Cruel," "Immoral"
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM/CBSNEWS.COM) - Former first lady Laura Bush criticized the Trump administration over the practice of separating undocumented migrant families, taking children from their parents at the border. "I live in a border state," Bush wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that was posted Sunday evening. "I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel."
The former Texas first lady went on to say, "Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso." She called the images "eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history."
It is very rare for Bush, the wife of former president George W. Bush, to wade into political controversies, but perhaps this exception is less surprising because it is in keeping with her longtime advocacy for children. In her op-ed, she writes that while the material needs of the migrant children are being met with "beds, toys, crayons, a playground and diaper changes," at shelters run by by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, "the people working at the shelter had been instructed not to pick up or touch the children to comfort them. Imagine not being able to pick up a child who is not yet out of diapers."
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