The American way of tearing families apart
From the article:
The outrage from both sides of the political mainstream is entirely justified, but the suggestion that this policy is unprecedented in the American tradition is like most expressions of American exceptionalism simply false.
WHETHER THROUGH direct government action or nonfeasance, or through the state-sanctioned actions of powerful private actors, the purposeful separation of parents and children has a long history in the U.S. most often linked to racial oppression or oppression based on national origin or religion
In addition:
Then there are the ways that policies of mass incarceration set into fast motion in the final decades of the 20th century result in the coercive power of the state forcibly removing parents from children.
With the highest incarceration rate in the world, the U.S. had, as of 2010, 2.7 million children with one or more parents who was incarcerated.
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2018/06/25/the-american-way-of-tearing-families-apart