Children are being ripped away from their parents at the Mexican border and locked up in cages. If this blatant human rights violation doesn't outrage you, then I don't know what will.

Trump's Attorney General, Jeff Sessions — a man who seems as if he preferred the way America was before 1860 — announced in April the administration's zero tolerance policy for people who cross the border illegally. And zero tolerance means tearing screaming toddlers, who have no idea what's going on, away from their mothers and imprisoning them. You know who else tore screaming toddlers away from their parents? The Nazis, right before they brutally murdered them.

Now, to defend this heinous policy, Sessions quoted the Bible because, you know, hypocrites like him think that God's cool with traumatizing innocent children. I mean, Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself unless they cross the Mexican-American border illegally; if they do that, then just brutally rip their children away from them," right?

And since the Bible apparently condones this, at least according to Sessions, then there's no way that every major religious organization in the United States outright condemns this family separation policy... Oh wait, that's exactly what happened — including several religious organizations that support President Trump on literally everything else.

There's just no words to describe how horrific separating innocent children from their parents and imprisoning them is. And for Sessions to use the Bible, of all things, to defend his and the rest of the administration's actions is absolutely disgusting.

Now, I don't usually care about what Senator Chuck Schumer says since he doesn't represent Ohio, but he's absolutely right when he says that Trump can end this policy that Trump — NOT "the Democrats" as he has repeatedly, falsely blamed — created "with a simple flick of a pen." Literally, Trump created this policy, despite his repeated lies that he didn't. He can end it right now without Congress intervening with an executive order.

Instead, Trump is basically holding these poor children hostage to try and bully Congressional Democrats into giving him his stupid, waste-of-money border wall.

He's basically giving them the ultimatum of, “What's more important: the welfare of these innocent children or not having the wall?"

I don't care how you feel about illegal immigration. These children being cruelly ripped away from their parents have done nothing wrong. They often don't know what's going on. They're being locked in cages in a foreign country, away from their parents, which is not like summer camp or boarding school as Fox News host, Laura Ingraham, wrongly claimed. And as John Oliver showed in one of his recent pieces, children are in no way prepared to defend themselves in immigration court, where they are not even guaranteed the right to a lawyer.

And now the administration is saying they're going to start detaining babies to "tender age" facilities. Yes, Trump is going to have actual babies arrested.

This policy of separating children from their families is indefensible. And when your best “defense" is responding "Womp, womp," to the story of a ten year old girl with Down Syndrome being taken from her mother, then you know that it's wrong (btw, any network that invites Corey Lewendowski on as a commentator should automatically lose their credibility for giving him platform after that disgusting display on Fox News).

First Lady Melania Trump and all of the living former First Ladies have condemned this family separation policy. Pope Francis has condemned it. The U.N., right before the US withdrew itself from the U.N. Human Rights Council, condemned it. World leaders have condemned it. Lawmakers from both sides have condemned it. Reporters have broken down in tears on air over it.

This policy is absolutely heartless and cruel. This is the kind of stuff that the Nazis did right before and during the Holocaust, , and I am absolutely ashamed that the United States, a nation that is supposed to champion human rights, has lowered itself to the level of some of recent history's worse monsters. Every American should be ashamed that we are treating innocent children like animals.

Ripping children away from their mothers and fathers, with no guarantee that they'll ever see their family again, and locking them in cages is not the way to solve illegal immigration. And if you think that what this administration is doing is okay, then you need to take a good long look in the mirror and re-evaluate your morals.

Note: This article was written before Trump signed his executive order ending his Family Separation policy; however, the issue remains that he and his administration have refused to clarify if, when, and how the children taken from their parents are going to be reunited with their families. This is absolutely, 100%, completely inexcusable, horrific, and outrageous. Over 2000 innocent children have essentially been kidnapped by the United States government. There are just no words to describe how horrific this is.

It was a human rights violation when the government kidnapped Native American children to destroy their culture. It was a human rights violation when the Nazis separated Jewish children from their families before slaughtering them. And ripping migrant away children from their parents, locking them in cages, and refusing to guarantee their safe reunion is a human rights violation.

But then again, Donald Trump has proven time and time again when he praised Kim Jong Un (a man who rules a regime with a very, very long list of human rights violations), congratulated Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for winning a sham election and ending presidential term limits respectively, and allowed the US to withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council that he cares little for human rights. And if his blatant disregard for the values that countless American men and women have died defending doesn't make you feel outraged, then you haven't been paying attention.