Thank you to the U.S. senators and representatives who have visited detention centers to see first hand the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers who are suffering because of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. Thank you to Gov. Carney and eight other governors for refusing to deploy the National Guard to the border.
Thank you, Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn and the other 17 attorneys general for filing a lawsuit June 26, arguing the Trump administration's family separation policy violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fifth Amendment.
On July 2, the same 18 attorneys general filed a motion asking the federal government to provide more immediate information and access to those detained. This motion includes over 900 pages of heartbreaking accounts from detained family members and testimony from child and immigration experts who have worked with the families. Their compelling accounts would cause anyone with empathy to act.
Opposition to this inhumane policy should be nonpartisan. Yet seven of the nine governors noted above and all 18 attorneys general are Democrats. Of the 27 Republican attorneys general, not one has put party allegiance aside to take part in legal action against the unconscionable treatment of families seeking refuge.
Congress has the authority to challenge these shameful policies instead of acquiescing in this administration's crimes against humanity and violations of our laws. History will judge their refusal to act, but people of good standing can and must act now to elect those in the midterm elections who will support rather than undermine the values for which this country has stood.
Zita Dresner
Lewes
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