Viet Thanh Nguyen Says The U.S. Could 'Lose Its Soul' With Migrant Family Separations
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was separated from his family as a child. He says the Trump administration's policy is "inhumane, it's immoral and the United States is simply doing the wrong thing."
The Trump administration's policy of separating families who are detained after illegally crossing the Southern border has become a lightning rod for the White House's critics.
Hundreds of children have already been separated from their parents since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the policy in May â though the practice has been going on for at least several months.
It was an expansion of what Sessions called a "zero-tolerance" policy â that the government will prosecute anyone attempting to enter the country illegally.
The policy prompted
