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One thing I’ve learned about President Donald Trump is his scandals are always much worse than meets the eye. I knew the Russians had their hooks into him back in 2016, but I didn’t know how extensive their operation was. I knew the border crisis was going to be bad, but it’s turned out to be even worse than I thought. We’ve seen children dying in custody, disease, sexual and physical abuse and other forms of human deprivation. Some people who volunteered to care for the children in detention were arrested on immigration charges when they showed up. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, much worse is coming.

So far we already know that at least two children have died attempting to cross into the United States. There have also been incidents of children kept in detention facilities who have attempted to commit suicide. A video recently leaked of staff at an Arizona detention facility kicking and dragging a child detainee. (The Southwest Key facility has been shut down.) Jose Nunez, a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office detention officer, was arrested after he was found to have molested a child and blackmailed her mother into keeping quiet. I also suspect some children may have been released to sexual offenders or sold into sex slavery. (This was the plot of a recent “Law and Order: SVU” episode.) According to a ProPublica report, more than 10,000 children are currently being held at detention centers.

“If you’re a predator, it’s a gold mine,” said Lisa Fortuna, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. “You have full access and then you have kids that have already had this history of being victimized.”

Apart from being a huge human rights black eye for the United States, Trump’s border policy is motivated by racism and misanthropy. Trump is playing to his base, who fear the changing face of America and have been brainwashed into believing that brown-skinned hordes are invading America. However, illegal border crossings have been dropping. According to Pew Research, unauthorized immigration was 12.2 million in 2004. That number fell to 10.7 million in 2016, a 13 percent drop.

But Trump supporters are also motivated by his willingness to inflict pain on people they don’t like, Latinos, gays, blacks and liberals. Yale History professor Timoty Snyder dubbed these kinds of policies as “sadopopulism.”

“These are policies that are deliberately designed to administer pain, to add to the total amount of pain in American society,” said Snyder in a YouTube. “If you hurt people you create a resource of pain, of anxiety and fear which you then direct against others.”

But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a way for migrants to be processed humanely. According to the U.S. Constitution, undocumented immigrants and prisoners are to be afforded basic human rights. In addition, the Trump administration is violating international law by making it difficult for people to apply for asylum. The old system where migrants were made to wear ankle bracelets and told to appear in court actually worked quite well, with more than 60–75 percent of them showing up to their court dates, according to Justice Department data.

This is not making America great again. It’s mean, inhumane, and motivated by hate. It’s also making America look really bad.

Trump’s new policy seems to be modeled after former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jail system which was designed to make life as unpleasant as possible. Of course, it was a disaster, prisoners, who often were waiting for their trial dates, were served rotten food, kept in tent cities under desert temperatures, denied medication and sometimes died. In one incident, a female prisoner was denied female sanitary products and had to sit in her own blood. Eventually, courts and human rights organizations stepped and forced Arpaio to scale back his tent city. Arapaio’s massive human rights abuse also proved to be a boon for lawyers who often successfully sued the state.

But Trump, in his wisdom, decided to try it again. This is not making America great again. It’s mean, inhumane, and motivated by hate. It’s also making America look really bad.