📇⬇️ policy:
it is, in fact, evil.
and make no mistake, whatever the rhetoric, the intent of the admin was to pick up the concentration camp nostalgia and continue as if no time had passed. "acting out" a warped and non-clearance level understanding of circumstances by lanyards is what this was and is.

Trump Allies Struggle to Explain Why Child Detention Isn’t Evil — Vanity Fair
The president’s allies brushed off comparisons between child detention centers and Nazi concentration camps—they’re much closer, they argued,...