A Department of Justice Inspector General draft report details how former AG Jeff Sessions and former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein spearheaded the migrant family separation of children and infants
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Photo: Getty Images Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union provided a better understanding of the scale of the abhorrent Trump administration policy of family separation at the border, when an ACLU lawsuit revealed that at least 4,300 undocumented children were separated by the Department of Homeland Security before the “zero-tolerance” order was rescinded in June 2018.
Sessions isn’t the only DOJ official whose callousness is put on full display in the inspector general’s draft. A week or so after the meeting in which Sessions gave his direction to turn the detention of children into a political tool, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein got back on the phone with the same group of U.S. attorneys:
“The department’s single-minded focus on increasing prosecutions came at the expense of careful and effective implementation of the policy, especially with regard to prosecution of family-unit adults and the resulting child separations,” the draft report states, while detailing for the first time several new offenses. In their zeal to pursue family separation cases, one Texas prosecutor informed their boss that “sex offenders were released” as a result.
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