With Trump's spokespeople, past and present, aggressively defending the policy. Their stance, that arrested criminals including illegal immigrants, are necessarily always separated from their kids.
My suspicion is that they're using this cruelty to deter others crossing the border.
Sucking out cash. The UK and overseas shareholders take £200m, out of a UK business with annual income of £19.5B (£10.5B from fares, £9B from central Government).
The main reason for the high fares is the £b's spent on new infrastructure and trains, and linked to that the manner that everything on railway building in the UK must be done to perfection with an army of construction workers, surveyors, h&s, experts, and very expensive technical plant bought...