“This is truly a very dark spot in U.S. history,” Colleen Kraft, the former president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told CNN. “This will be remembered as a time when the U.S. was cruel to immigrant children. It makes me wonder what kind of country are we that we would treat children this way.”

Since 2016, the U.S. has seen an unrelenting assault on children, damaging to their health and driving up healthcare costs.

Highly contagious, very preventable, measles is now a major concern for many parents of young and school age children.

More than a quarter million children lost health insurance this year — the first decline in over a decade.

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