Europe's migration policies are not so different from Trump's
The European response to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" of illegal migration and especially the controversial separation of children from their parents has largely been one of outrage and disgust. "We do not share the same model of civilization," said French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux in June. "Has ever a US president displayed such a total lack of empathy, such a deficit of common human decency?" thundered Britain's Observer newspaper in an editorial. But to the US President, it's Europe that's got it all wrong. "Crime in Germany is way up," he tweeted in June, although the statistics show otherwise. "Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!" Trump added -- a wild assertion. Many Europeans take umbrage at Trump's attacks. But even if they don't subscribe to his "zero tolerance"