Breaking up immigrant families is ‘not who we are’? Oh yes it is

This is not who we are, people keep saying.

One of our U.S. senators, Maria Cantwell, said this the other day. Like most everybody else, she was talking about the aggressive “zero tolerance” policy that’s separating kids from their Central American mothers who are trying to get asylum or otherwise enter America.

“This is not who we are as a people,” echoed a Seattle pro-immigration activist group, El Centro de la Raza.

“There is no other way to say it,

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