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According to the news before the nomination, no.
Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as:
... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;. (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.. — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2.
BBC: 'Like a kidnapping': Migrant family separated under Trump reunited after four years
CNN: Families forcibly separated at the border by the Trump administration seeking settlements in ongoing negotiations
What Trump did is awful, of course, but was it really committed with this intent in mind?
Like I get what you're saying, separating families at the border is harmful, cruel and driven by racism. But I'm not sure it counts as genocide. This from the CNN article:
Seems totally fair to me. It is torture. It is abuse. It is callous and disgusting. But I feel like it would be a stretch to call it genocide, particularly with what Israel is doing in mind.
Look at the same list for Israel:
Since it's hard to keep up at this point they may have even done the last.
What I'm saying is that for all us that want to stop or at least minimize such horrendous acts, I think there should be a clear priority here. And honestly saying separating families at the border is genocide is really cheapening what genocide means.
But yeah pragmatically speaking there is only one harm it seems possible to stop with the election. UNLESS Harris changes her position, which is a thing she can do. Then we could stop both and to me that is what we should fight for in any way we can.