The backlash against baby jails has been swift and vocal. Some on the right have called it “fake news” and “hysteria,” but to me, it shows that compassion and humanity are not dead in this country.
A federal judge in California has stepped up and ordered that all separated children be reunited with their parents in no more than 30 days — within 14 days for children under the age of 5 — and that no more deportations of parents without their children occur unless the parent is found to be unfit, present a danger or voluntarily agrees to deportation without their child.