Trump and the Migrant Children — what’s happening and why

Photo by Arwan Sutanto on Unsplash

I am writing this only as a response to the stream of social media I’m seeing in which it seems very few people are seeing past the smokescreen of outrage surrounding the separation of children from their parents on the Mexican border.

Here’s what I think is happening, in very simple terms. (Links below go into more depth; I may be wrong but at least I’m trying to…