“It’s not just that this looks terrible in the eyes of the world. It is terrible: at least 2,000 children ripped from their parents’ arms, sometimes literally, in just the first six weeks,” the editorial board wrote.
According to The Hill, the editorial board criticized “Team Trump” for their decision to prosecute illegal border-crossers "rather than simply deporting them."
The usually supportive New York paper, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, also criticized Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), saying he has launched a “pathetic” bid to fix the controversial policy.
“Ryan’s answer is to stick a change of the law into the two big immigration bills he has the House voting on this week. But there’s no way the Senate will pass either one — indeed, not much chance the House will,” the editorial board wrote.
“Anyway, making it so Immigration and Customs Enforcement can detain the kids along with their parents is only a minor improvement — since ICE is already running out of space to hold people, and looking at 'tent cities' as a supposedly temporary expedient,” the editorial board wrote.
The publication told its readers, "You can bet that critics will start calling these 'Trump’s concentration camps,' and the term will catch on if they’re full of kids."
“The polls were starting to suggest that Republicans might not lose big in this November’s midterm elections, but they’ll turn back the other way if this keeps up — and rightly so,” it added.
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