Thus the progress from infant, toddler and child concentration camps to something a bit more like the Dickensian debtors prisons that housed entire families in the early to mid 19th century.
But it's not even clear that the end of family separations will happen, and especially happen soon. There are reportedly no new orders to federales on the border.
Meanwhile, some 2,300 or more children already separated have been sent out to a reported 14 states with no plan for ever reuniting them with their parents--something that looks dangerously like federal child trafficking.
What the antipresident hoped he would accomplish by what was clearly a surrender and exposure of the lies he and his discredited minions have been telling was this: (1) to make himself a hero and (2) get the story away from the attention of voters as well as governors, mayors and major businesses, like the airlines announcing they won't fly these separated kids to any more states.
Neither has worked so far. The media is not buying it, and they are still asking pertinent questions. The momentum begun just a few days ago continued Wednesday in other sectors. In particular, there's a lot more money headed to the border to provide legal representation and bail money for asylum seekers and others caught in this policy.
But as migrant concentration camps grow as combinations of prison and terrorist black sites, we'll see whether the media and the public exhibit more staying power than they have in the past.
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