Editorial: Trump decision doesn't end the crisis at border

Never mind.

Except that we absolutely should continue to mind, to pay attention, to press Trump and Congress for resolution on a range of immigration issues that have rotted to the point where the administration believed enough Americans would find it acceptable to wrest children from their parents and sequester them separately in detention camps and facilities.

They didn’t — or at least two-thirds of them didn’t — and raised their voices loud enough that on Wednesday afternoon President Trump did what for days he insisted he could not do: end the “zero tolerance” policy at the border. The policy has resulted in the separation of more than 2,300 children from their families who crossed the border illegally or even those who had legally sought asylum at ports of entry.

Yes, the children are being fed, sheltered and provided minimal care, but it’s inescapable that most are behind chain-link fences, sleeping on mattresses on the floor under emergency blankets and left with no hope of comfort from an explanation of where their parents are or when they will see them again. That most are separated by gender and age means that many have been kept from their own brothers and sisters.

Trump and his officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristen Nielsen had claimed — sometimes directly contradicting the other — that the recently instituted policy, adopted in April, was federal law that they had no choice but to follow, justified by the Bible, the fault of Democrats or something only Congress could fix.

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