Recent commentary has suggested that Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) could investigate the Trump administration’s new policy of separating children from immigrant parents, and could also investigate the conditions under which these separated children are held. Texas Republicans may have considered this possibility too. Yesterday, Lauren McGaughy of the Dallas Morning News reported that the Texas GOP has added to its platform a plank that would abolish CPS. Although this new plank was inspired by Republican efforts to escape federal oversight of the Texas child welfare system, which has been badly underfunded with children sleeping in state offices and dying on the state’s watch, abolishing CPS would also support Trump’s policy of taking immigrant children away from their parents, a policy goal favored by Texas Republicans.
(The photo is from the Preus museum, the national museum of photography in Norway.)