that the kind of trauma the government is inflicting is often permanent:

"By separating parents and children, we are doing irreparable harm to these children. The long-term concern of what we call toxic stress is that brains are not developed efficiently or effectively," Kraft says. "And these children go on to have behavior problems, to have long-term medical problems."

Antar Davidson quit his job at another center in Arizona after realizing that the staff there was completely unequipped to give so many isolated children the care and services they need. Davidson told the Los Angeles Times that his breaking point came when he was instructed to tell three Brazilian siblings who thought their parents were dead that they weren't allowed to huddle together and hug each other. From the Times:

Theofficial basically told reporters the same thing, saying, "The president has told folks that in lieu of the laws being fixed, he wants to use the enforcement mechanisms that we have. The thinking in the building is to force people to the table.”

It's essentially the same game Trump has been playing with DACA, threatening to imprison and deport nearly a million people who grew up in America with no criminal record if Democrats just agree to sell out every other immigrant in the country. He's even sworn that he'll oppose any immigration reform with a whiff of compromise, which means, in this case, returning children to their parents without getting his ransom first.