The president...was reportedly shown a recording of a previous drone strike and asked “Why did you wait?” after the video showed the strike was delayed until the target’s family home was out of range...
Later, when the agency’s head of drone operations explained that the CIA had developed special munitions to limit civilian casualties, the president seemed unimpressed.He stated repeatedly on the trail that the families were "in on it" that "the wives know" etc and expressed the opinion that they had to be dealt with harshly in order to persuade the bad guys to stop their terrorist ways. He never explicitly said that we should remove children from their families but apparently he thinks that's a good idea too. He's actually put that form of "going after the families" into practice at the Mexican border.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the Justice Department will begin prosecuting every person who illegally crosses into the United States along the Southwest border, a hard-line policy shift focusing in particular on migrants traveling with children...Federal prosecutors will “take on as many of those cases as humanly possible until we get to 100 percent,” he said.I hope I don't have to point out that it's not a child's fault either. But that doesn't appear to concern Sessions or DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen anymore than killing family members to deter terrorists concerns their boss. Nielsen declared that Americans are separated every day from their children when they commit a crime so these people shouldn't commit crimes and it won't happen to them. Defining keeping your family together as "smuggling" is glib but it doesn't mean it makes sense.
“If you cross the border unlawfully . . . then we will prosecute you,” Sessions said. “If you smuggle an illegal alien across the border, then we’ll prosecute you. . . . If you’re smuggling a child, then we’re going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law. If you don’t want your child separated, then don’t bring them across the border illegally. It’s not our fault that somebody does that.”