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Dahleen Glanton: With Trump, U.S. has ceded the moral high ground on immigration

It is time for America to address its own humanitarian crisis.

With more than 12,000 children being held in detention camps, our nation can no longer claim the moral high ground when it comes to refugee children.

We gave up our perch the moment we began locking up children who arrived at our doorstep fleeing violence and crime in Central America.

While Donald Trump took us to a new low with his "zero tolerance" policy that separates children from their parents at the southwest border, America has long known that

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