Trump official: Family separation practice was 'effective' but undone by public perception

[orangecrush]

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan argued in an interview that aired Sunday night that the Trump administration's prior practice of separating migrant families at the border was effective but undone by public perception.

"The enforcement of the law against parents who violated our border laws and brought children with them was effective," McAleenan told CBS' "60 Minutes," adding, "But it didn't work in the sense that we lost the public trust in the implementation of that initiative. And I agreed with the president's decision to stop it."

McAleenan added that "when you lose the public trust in a law enforcement initiative ... that means that wasn't successful."

As former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, McAleenan was responsible for helping enforce the administration's "zero tolerance" policy that led to the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border before President Trump ended the practice last year.







https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/latino/441081-acting-dhs-head-family-separation-was-effective-but-undone-by-public-perception%3famp

[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. "Effective" at WHAT exactly ?

[gratuitous]

2. Remember, these are people who try to legitimize Hitler

So extrapolate accordingly.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. I suggest we ship them to Stuttgart.

[GulfCoast66]

4. good god. If we shot them coming across the boarder it would be effective as well.

But, hopefully we are not that kind of a people.


East Germany was pretty effective in keep its citizens from going to west germany. But that is not who we are.
Well, some of us.

[lunatica]

5. It just seems the bullshit rain won't ever stop

Just say something that’s failed is a success, stop doing it, and blame the other side for making you stop it.

Just bullshit rain.