As the warm and fuzzy Father’s Day video greetings roll in over Twitter, Congressperson Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) is planning a march on Tornillo, Texas, a name which is fast becoming synonymous with barbarity. It’s been widely reported that up to 360 migrant children who have been separated from their families are expected to be held at a tent encampment there, representing just a fraction of the nearly 2,000 children who’ve been separated from “alleged adult guardians,” according to the Department of Homeland Security.

On Thursday, Jeff Sessions delightedly invoked the power of God, and a touch of 19th-century bigotry, to justify the new “zero tolerance” policy. “I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13,” he said, grinning, “to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes.”

“The government tolerated lynching just like they tolerated slavery,” Reverend Jesse Jackson pointed out on Friday.