What Checks and Balances Are Within a System That Would Otherwise Stop It?

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It's interesting how this which may be one of the worst policies of the modern era. Is sort of a test case for, like, what checks and balances are within a system that would otherwise stop it. The time that, it seems, the closest to being stopped are people who are just saying, this is impossible. There is no way this can happen, much less it should happen.

Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer for The Atlantic covering immigration. Her latest article, on the secret history of U.S. government’s family-separation policy, is ”An American Catastrophe.”

“Interviewing separated families, I’ve found, is just on a whole other scale of pain and trauma. I’ve watched people have really intense PTSD flashbacks in front of me. I never wanted to risk asking a family to open up in that way if I didn’t know that I’d be able to use that material. The worst thing you can do is waste someone’s time in a way that causes them pain.”

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