Statement of Hilarie Bass, ABA president Re: Separating immigrant children from parents at the border

Hilarie Bass, President of the American Bar Association, has issued a statement on “separating immigrant children from parents at the border”.  It begins:

“The American Bar Association strongly opposes the government’s policy of forcibly separating minor children from their parents when families cross the southern border into the United States. This unnecessarily cruel action violates basic standards of human decency.” (emphasis added).

KJ