Consider the policy started in 2018 that separated thousands of migrant children from their parents when they crossed the southern border. What kinds of policies are acceptable and unacceptable in the United States? How should moral arguments be weighed in such decisions? How might one define what is moral and what is not? 

 

Think of an example where you have seen a policy change. 

• What forces drove this change?
• Was it because an evaluation showed that something was not working correctly? If so, what information was brought to bear to argue for the change?
• Was it mainly political?
• What was altered in the political process to make the change?

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