By Miles Smith
Last week, reputable reports appeared that the United States government had begun forcibly separating children from their parents at the border and even at installations within the United States. An op-ed at the Los Angeles Times by Colleen Kraft detailed the government’s decision. From October 2017 to the spring of 2018, “the federal government has separated more than 700 children from their parents as they entered the United States, according to Office of Refugee Resettlement data reviewed by the New York Times.”
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Dr. Miles Smith IV is a historian of the American South and native Carolinian. Follow him on Twitter @ivmiles.
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