The officials who devised family separation or who stood by while this abuse was perpetrated may wish to turn the page and move on, but the thousands of families who were separated cannot do so until the U.S. Thank you to The Atlantic for keeping this issue in the public spotlight. Instead, his administration’s Department of Justice is fighting these families in court and defending the abhorrent family-separation policies of the Trump administration. Despite calling family separation “criminal” on the campaign trail, Joe Biden has done little for its survivors. government is obligated to provide prompt and effective redress to survivors, including psychological rehabilitative services. As a perpetrator of state torture, the U.S. The trauma from these separations did not disappear when families were finally reunited. Both Dickerson’s investigation and PHR’s reports on the health consequences of family separation show that all four criteria for torture were met. Torture (1) causes severe physical or mental pain or suffering (2) is done intentionally, (3) for the purpose of coercion, punishment, or intimidation and (4) is conducted by a state official or with state consent or acquiescence.
It reaffirms why Physicians for Human Rights concluded in 2020 that family separation meets the United Nations’ criteria for torture and enforced disappearance.Īs outlined in the UN’s Convention Against Torture-which the United States ratified in 1994-four elements must be met to legally define acts as torture. View MoreĬaitlin Dickerson’s breathtaking investigation exposed the malice and incompetence of the Trump administration, as well as the failure of hundreds of government officials to stop a policy that deliberately traumatized thousands of children and parents. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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