Steve Rattner: Trump’s Using Immigrant Kids as Pawns

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RATTNER: "What’s I think to me one of the more sickening aspects of this is that what Trump is effectively doing is using these children as pawns. He’s using them as pawns, as a deterrent to try to get other families from coming here. And he’s using them as pawns on Capitol Hill to try to force the passage of some immigration bill that he likes as opposed to what would be a very simple, a very simple bill that simply said, 'You no longer have to separate parents from children if you choose to detain them,' which is the source of all this problem. So it’s really — it’s heartbreaking to see this happening, but it’s even more heartbreaking to see our president using young children as pawns in a political struggle.”