Yes, it’s complicated. Which is why no government should attempt to carry out an ad hoc zero tolerance immigration plan at the border that includes an ad hoc separation of children from parents without a way to reconnect said children to parents.
That sort of ad hockery is an administrative mockery. Anyone knows two ad hocs don’t make right.
In which case we have a situation that goes beyond a simple snafu.
More than 2,000 children separated?
As befits my role as a columnizing journalist, an adjunct lecturer and self-proclaimed neologist, the times cry out for a new word to describe the mess of our times.
And so I have coined the term tafu. Not tofu which Asian Americans would immediately be familiar with, as should all those adventurous souls who eschew meat and know there is a difference between the firm and extra firm.
No, this is not tofu. I mean tafu as in a word that is its own grand mess.
