Dormont Mayor Lashes Out At Trump Immigration Policy

DORMONT, PA - Mayor Jason Walsh is aware that being the mayor of a small borough just to the south of Pittsburgh, he has no national political clout. But that hasn’t stopped him from speaking out against the Trump administration’s new immigration policy that has led to a significant increase in migrant children being separated from their families.

Walsh wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions on borough stationery in which he echoed the words of Massachusetts Congressman Joseph Kennedy III, who labeled the policy “cruelty in its purest form.”

“I would be derelict in my duties as an elected official, a citizen and a father if I went one more day without speaking out against the crisis that is plaguing America,” Walsh wrote. “Our crisis is a humanitarian crisis. It’s a battle for moral compass in America. No rationale, no law, no religious text can justify this level of persecution.”

Labeling the policy “morally bankrupt,” Walsh requested that Sessions reverse the policy and reunite the families.

“America has traded the Golden Door for prison bars,” he wrote. “Showing only cruelty in the face of insurmountable desperation is no way to govern.”

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