Breaking up families was tried before - it failed miserably

[NewJeffCT]

Thanks to Asha Rangappa for tweeting the link to the article.

The Dickens novel Oliver Twist was based on those policies:

What has struck me, as a professor of English literature, are the startling parallels between the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families and the “New” Poor Laws of England in the 1830s, whose cruelty was illuminated by Charles Dickens in novels and other writings.

England tried much the same kind of tactics that Trump’s administration has used. Americans may remember the suffering face of Oliver Twist, begging for just a little more food. It may surprise some to realize that Dickens wrote the novel specifically to shine a light on new and brutal laws. Dickens was particularly concerned by the state’s assault on the integrity of the family.

https://theconversation.com/breaking-up-families-america-looks-like-a-dickens-novel-98660

[Wellstone ruled]

1. And we had Slave Sales which seperated Families for life.

[tblue37]

2. Native American children were torn from their families and incarcerated in abusive

boarding schools where they were underfed, overworked, abused, and not provided with necessary medical care when sick. Many tried to run away, and many died before getting very far.

ANd don't forget the little Japanese-American kids, like George Takei, who were interned during WWII--but as awful as that was, they at least were allowed to stay with their families.

The US has a long, ugly history of abusing the children of POC, and often tearing them from their families.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. As has already been pointed out,

breaking up certain families succeeded incredibly well. Despicably so.