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‘Separated’ Director Errol Morris Says Ultimate Goal Of Trump Border Policy Was Meanness, Not Deterrence – Guest Column


Filmmaker Errol Morris writes that here was never a policy of separating families at the U.S. border until the Trump administration implemented it.

Editors note: Errol Morris is the documentary filmmaker behind features including the Oscar-winning The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line, works renowned for their investigative style. Trump, his attorney general Jeff Sessions, his senior advisor Stephen Miller, and his director of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Tom Homan. Kirstjen Nielsen bristled at the suggestion that these policies were designed to deter immigrants from leaving Central America and beginning a journey north to the southern border of the U.S.

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