Among the legendary comedy skits of British television is a 2006 Mitchell and Webb piece called “Are We The Baddies?” It features two Nazi SS officers who, preparing for a Russian assault, look at their own uniforms replete with skulls on the caps and wonder if they're actually the bad guys in the historical narrative.
Americans with a sense of shame and self-awareness are now forced to ask themselves the same question in a far more serious context.
It has now become apparent that our federal government has perhaps irrevocably destroyed the families of hundreds of asylum seekers by ripping children from their parents, then destroying the records of which children belong to which parents, and losing track in many cases both of the parents and the children involved.
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