Despite denials, it's clear that Google's new top national security hire was instrumental to Trump's KidsInCages policy

After news broke last week that Google's latest head of national security policy engagement was Miles Taylor, former chief of staff to DHS undersecretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Google tried to calm its outraged staff by insisting that Taylor had nothing to do with Trump's Kids in Cages policy that shattered families forever and murdered innocent children, nor with Trump's racist ethnic cleansing Muslim Ban.

And while it's true that Taylor's career in the DHS took place after the Muslim Ban, it's also unequivocally, indisputably true that he was a vocal defender of the ban.

As to Kids in Cages, Google is just lying. Taylor was instrumental to the plan, creating the "Protecting Children Narrative" for his boss, and participating in multiple calls during the PR crisis, whose subject, per his official calendar, was "discuss Border Security and Immigration Enforcement." Taylor drafted testimony for his boss defending the policy, and was exchanging daily emails helping to manage the PR around family separation, including emails sent on the same day Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted "The stories and images of families being separated at the border are gut-wrenching. Urging our government to work together to find a better, more humane way that is reflective of our values as a nation."

On May 5, 2018, Nielsen sent an email to Taylor; Chad Wolf, her chief of staff; and Jonathan Hoffman, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, asking for narratives by 10 the next morning. Days before, a caravan of Central American immigrants had made its way to the USMexico border in Tijuana.The Trump administrations family separation was already in effect, after thenattorney general Jeff Sessions call in April for a zero tolerance policy for border-crossing offenses.