'What Is More Uncivil and Cruel Than Taking Children Away?'

Hillary Clinton said in an interview published Friday that current complaints about the loss of civility in American politics are nothing compared to the societal coarseness unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border.

‘What is more uncivil and cruel than taking children away?’ the former Democratic presidential nominee asked, pointing fingers of blame at the billionaire who beat her in 2016.

Like a growing number of Americans, Clinton is upset about the more than 2,000 minors separated from illegal immigrant parents after their border crossings. Under President Donald Trump‘s ‘zero tolerance’ policy, the adults are prosecuted. By law the children acn’t be housed with them.

The liberal politician, traditionally bullish on big government, lamented a federal bureaucracy marked by ‘very poor record keeping and incompetence’ that she said is likely to lose track of some children and fail to reunite others with their mothers and fathers before the grown-ups are deported. Hillary the Other Woma... Dolly Kyle Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $5.44 (as of 08:25 UTC - Details)

‘The question of how we reunite the children who were taken from the parents is the one that’s keeping me up at night,’ Clinton told The Guardian, adding that she’s ‘worried that some children will not be reunited.’

Near tears, she said she has personally raised $1.5 million to ‘flood the border with lawyers, interpreters, experienced social workers, psychologists.’

‘We just have to get as much expertise down there to force the federal government to give us everything.’

She characterized the debate over incivility – fueled by incidents including Trump’s press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being asked to leave a restaurant and Maxine Waters, the veteran Democratic congresswoman calling for White House officials to be confronted in the street – as an example of ‘that ridiculous concept of bothesidism’. Guilty as Sin: Uncover... Edward Klein Best Price: $1.84 Buy New $7.26 (as of 06:45 UTC - Details)

‘I mean, this is a crisis of his making that will damage kids for no good reason at all, and I think everybody should be focused on that until the children are reunited,’ she said.

Clinton used the interview – conducted during a tour of Ireland and the United Kingdom – to emphasize that she has no intention of leaving the political world.

She said that she would be campaigning consistently until the November mid-term elections for Democratic candidates.

That prospect is likely to raise concern in her own party over the potential for Clinton campaigning to do more harm than good.

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