Former U.S. Ambassador Calls Immigration Policies 'Un-American'
June 17, 20188:12 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday
JASON BRESLOW
In her first interview since resigning in May, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, gives a blistering critique of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration agenda. Jacobson tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro enforcement actions that result in children being separated from their parents, as well as a recent decision to narrow the definition of what qualifies someone for asylum, are "draconian" and "un-American."
She says Trump's immigration policies are among the "many reasons" she chose to resign after serving for less than two years as America's top diplomat to Mexico.
"It is very difficult to see how these policies either help the United States or the countries from which the migrants are coming," Jacobson says.
"Unless the administration can address the reasons why migrants from Mexico and Central America are coming to the U.S., she says, "no amount of draconian and frankly, un-American policies, as I believe these are, is really going to make a permanent difference, but it may affect our own standing in the world and certainly in the region" ...
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/620628547/former-u-s-ambassador-to-mexico-calls-trumps-immigration-policies-un-american