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ProPublica who were just separated from their parents, some as young as 4, none older than 10. They sob for almost eight minutes. In between the moans of the child next to her, Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid, 6, tries to get an official鈥檚 attention, whimpering:

At least can I go with my aunt? I want her to come. I want my aunt to come so she can take me to my house. I have her number. Are you going to call my aunt so that when I鈥檓 done eating, she can pick me up? I have her number memorized. 34 72 鈥� My mommy says that I鈥檒l go with my aunt and that she鈥檒l come to pick me up there as quickly as possible.

Since October 1, 2017, . The vast majority were separated after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a to criminally prosecute every adult who enters the country without documentation.

Sending parents to federal prison or to detention centers means separating them from their children 鈥� including parents who have proven parentage and are seeking asylum 鈥� and this past week, the country saw where those children were being sent.

Photographs of hundreds of children in cages with sparked such a public outcry that on Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order replacing his administration鈥檚 policy with a new one.

Now, instead of detaining children in separate facilities away from their parents, the administration plans to hold families in detention together 鈥� indefinitely.

That is not required by a single statue or court ruling. Nor does the Trump administration appear to have a plan for how to reunite parents and children who have already been separated from each other 鈥� or an answer to critics who point out that the prohibits holding migrant children in custody for more than 20 days.

All Trump鈥檚 order does is replace a policy to detain immigrant children in separate centers from their parents with a policy to detain them together.

It will still unacceptably criminalize 鈥� and traumatize 鈥� children in prison-like facilities.

And it will dangerously prolong their incarceration.

鈥淧erhaps the plan all along was to do a thing so egregious that, when you stop doing it, you still get to do what you wanted to do all along,鈥� Wednesday. 鈥淒etain entire families. Indefinitely. In camps. And call it humane.鈥�

We鈥檙e glad Trump backed down from his morally repugnant, indefensible policy of separating children from their families and imprisoning them in cages.

But his new executive order comes from the same anti-immigrant wellspring that led him to demonize immigrants as 鈥渃谤颈尘颈苍补濒蝉鈥� or 鈥渁苍颈尘补濒蝉鈥� who our country. And it taps into a history that includes the , , and that took children away from their parents.

Immigration law is not what鈥檚 changed since the Obama and Bush administrations. What has changed 鈥� drastically 鈥� is who is interpreting it.

We鈥檙e fighting back. When administration officials tried early this week to deny family separation was happening, we knew they were lying: our Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative is representing detained immigrants right now who include parents who鈥檝e been separated from their children at ports of entry.

On June 30, we鈥檙e national partners in the , when people around the country will come together in recognition of the fact that incarcerating entire families is not the solution to family separation.

The Trump administration has chosen to promote an extreme anti-immigrant agenda that is inhumane, morally reprehensible and completely unnecessary. This executive order is not a fix.

The Editors.

P.S. Here are some other pieces we think are valuable this week:

• by Dahlia Lithwick for Slate
• by Amanda Schaffer for The New Yorker
• by Ian MacDougall for ProPublica
• by Adam Serwer for The Atlantic

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