Rather than propose a legislative plan to prevent family separations in advance of the “zero tolerance” change, the White House made the change, with full knowledge that it would result in these separations, with practically no fanfare last month—and began calling for a congressional fix only after nearly 2,000 children had already been torn from their parents’ arms. All the while, they have continued to insist that, in Nielsen’s words, “illegal actions have and must have consequences” and that “we will not apologize for the job we do.” Now, with Congress scrambling to provide an immediate solution, federal immigration officers continue to break up new families ever day.