John Oliver on the separation of the family before the mid-term elections (VIDEO).

Before the mid-term elections of 2018, Donald Trump redoubled his anti-immigration rhetoric by threatening a caravan of Central American migrants with military reprisals and by presenting such racist publicity that CNN refused to broadcast it. He also promised to end citizenship by using a decree, which may well be a hollow threat. "It's hard to know what the president wants or even can do, "noted John Oliver Sunday night. But if Trump wants to make that choice on immigration, the Last week tonight the host is happy to oblige, looking at "the most emblematic moment" of the presidency up to now: the separation of the family.

Oliver, energetic and seemingly on the verge of tears, examines how the administration has proceeded to the separation of families and its devastating effects on children and parents. But he is the most moved when he discusses Why the administration carried it out in the first place. "If you look at enough of these ads, you realize it's not that they do not want immigrants coming here because they're criminals. It is because they treat them as criminals because they do not want them to come here, "he said.

He concluded with a speech on the policy to be followed by each voter who will go to the polls on Tuesday. "It was cruel, botched, useless, racist, and ultimately, exactly what we expected," Oliver said. "And I would say that the biggest threat to our status as" the greatest nation on the planet "is not a caravan thousands of miles south of us. It's anyone who thinks this is a fucking acceptable answer. "