With Rosalynn Carter adding her voice to the choir of political figures who are speaking out against the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy, all five living first ladies have now publicly come out against the controversial policy, which separates children from their parents as families try to cross the border into the U.S.
Carter called the practice of removing children from their parents “disgraceful and a shame to our country,” while recalling the work she did to raise awareness about the plight of refugees in Cambodia in the late 1970s.
Laura Bush published an op-ed in the Washington Post on Father’s Day calling family separations “immoral” and “cruel” while noting that more than 100 of the detained children are under the age of four. Bush also compared the current administration’s warehousing of immigrants in detention facilities to the internment camps in the U.S….
