Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper called the Trump administration's detention of migrant children "kidnapping" — and fellow Democratic presidential contender and author Marianne Williamson went a step further, branding the policy as a "state-sponsored" crime.
On the second night of debates for candidates in the wide Democratic field, Hickenlooper decried the "sanction" to "federal agents to take children from the arms of their parents and put them in cages and put them up for adoption."
"In Colorado, we call that kidnapping," he said.
Williamson added: "If you take a lot of children and put them in detainment inflicting trauma upon them, that's child abuse."
"This is collective child abuse," she declared. "Both of those things are a crime. If your government does it, that doesn't make it less of a crime. These are state-sponsored crimes."
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