On a bicycle ride today, my cousin and I came across a group of people marching to protest the Trump government’s kidnapping of children at the Mexican border. This reminded me of Principle IV. We joined the march.
After World War II, as the Allies prepared for the Nuremberg Trials, they agreed on the following principle: “The fact that a person acted pursuant to an order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”
Taking a nursing baby away from its mother because she crossed a border or asked for asylum is illegal under international law.
People working at the border with Mexico are taking children by force from their parents, doing it because they were ordered to by Trump’s government. Those who grab babies are making a moral choice. They should—like the death-camp Nazis at Nuremberg—be charged and tried.
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