DALLAS MORNING NEWS NAMES LAURA BUSH ‘TEXAN OF THE YEAR’

  

The Dallas Morning News has picked former first lady Laura Bush as the newspaper's "Texan of the Year" for speaking out against child separation at the border.

The newspaper on Sunday said Bush wrote "one of the most consequential op-eds of the year" when she published a Father's Day column calling the Trump's administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy "cruel" and "immoral."

The policy led to nearly 3,000 children being separated from their families.

Bush told the editorial board she saw it as a time when her voice could make a difference.  .