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Gov't watchdog: DOJ failed 'zero tolerance' management

by Colleen Long
| January 14, 2021 9:26 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 “zero tolerance” border policy would result in family separations but pressed on with prosecutions even as other agencies became overwhelmed with migrants, a government watchdog report released Thursday has found.

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