Letter: Trump immigration policy should be unimaginable

The Trump administration policy of separating parents and children who have crossed the border between the United States and Mexico between ports of entry, including those who have come seeking asylum, should be considered cruel and unusual punishment and prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.The administration’s justification for the policy is as a deterrent. I don’t know whether it will be effective in that regard, but for it to be, it would have to inflict sufficient misery as to dis