Most people regard Donald Trump’s treatment of immigrant children as among his most shocking crimes as President. Images of hundreds of children stolen from their families and imprisoned in chain-link cages are an unforgettable disgrace that President Joe Biden must move quickly to remedy, with humane immigration policies and a program to quickly reunite divided families.
A less-publicized Trump policy that actually killed children was the fulfillment of his campaign promises to “bomb the shit out of” America’s enemies and “take out their families.” Trump escalated Obama’s bombing campaigns against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and loosened U.S. rules of engagement regarding airstrikes that were predictably going to kill civilians.
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