UPDATED: Editorial Boards to Trump: Stop Separating Families

Communities and activists across the country are calling on the Trump administration to immediately end the inhumane policy of separating up families at the border and detaining children. Trump’s policy has led to more than 2,500 children being seperated and, despite his executive order, thousands of families remain separated with no information on when they will be reunited. If Republicans were serious about ending the humanitarian crisis at the border, they would support clean and permanent legislation to undo it – such as the Keeping Families Together Act in the Senate and the House.

 

More and more editorial boards across the country agree:

 

NEW Tampa Bay Times: Editorial: Congress should ban splitting kids, parents

 

NEW The Olympian: Editorial: We are better than this cruelty at the border

 

NEW The Seattle Times: Editorial: Jailing families together is not immigration reform
 

NEW The Herald Dispatch: Editorial: It's up to Trump, GOP to end separation of kids

 

NEW Herald Tribune: Editorial: Trump border policy cruel and unusual

 

NEW Newsday: Editorial: Stop the cruel separation of families at the border

 

NEW Lancaster Online: Editorial: Stop separating children from their parents now

 

NEW Kansas City Star: Editorial: Migrant children separated from their parents are in Kansas. Why is it a secret?
 

Los Angeles Times: Editorial: Trump is using children as political bargaining chips. It doesn’t get more crassly cynical

 

San Diego Tribune: Editorial: Separating families: Trump, not Democrats, responsible for cruel policy

 

San Francisco Chronicle: Editorial: Ending Trump’s cruel family separation policy

 

The Fresno Bee: Editorial: Border-detention policy breaking up families is an outrage, and needs to end now

 

AZ Central: Editorial: This isn't complicated. Separating immigrant parents and children is wrong

 

Arizona Daily Star: Editorial: Trump family separation plan reeks of his failure

 

Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: Editorial: Hey, Texas Republicans – Support family values for migrant children

 

Dallas Morning News: Editorial: The Trump administration's border separation policy is counter to who we are as a people

 

Tampa Bay Times: Editorial: Trump should stop taking children away from parents at the border

 

Miami Herald: Editorial: Stop separating children and parents at the border

 

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Editorial: Abominable. Horrific. Monstrous. Trump's family-separation policy must stop.

 

The Daily Nonpareil: Editorial: Human rights abomination

 

Des Moines Register: Editorial: It's un-American to rip apart immigrant families. Why aren't Grassley, Ernst speaking out?

 

Chicago Tribune: Editorial: Don’t separate immigrant kids from parents

 

The Topeka Capital-Journal: Editorial: Forced family separation must stop

 

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Editorial: Inhumane Society

 

Terre Haute Tribune-Star: Editorial: This despicable policy must end

 

The Alton Telegraph: Editorial: There’s nothing ‘great’ – or moral – about separating families

 

Syracuse.com: Editorial: Dear Mr. Vice President: Stop separating families at the border

 

Bangor Daily News: Editorial: Taking children from their parents is what terrorists do

 

Capitol Broadcasting Company: Editorial: Time for N.C.'s congressional delegation to stand for kids and against inhumanity on our border

 

The Commercial Appeal: Editorial: US must stop holding children hostage

 

The Roanoke Times: Editorial: We checked. Animals are treated better than the children locked up in Texas.

 

The Virginian-Pilot: Editorial: Stop separating parents from their children

 

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Editorial: Stop ripping children from parents

 

Catholic Register: Editorial: Stop the madness

USA Today: Editorial: At the border, Trump's zero tolerance makes zero sense