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We Shouldn't Be Separating ANY Kids From Their Parents At The Border

I don't know why this is hard. Apparently, we have to say this. It's also ridiculous and indefensible to treat asylum-seekers as criminals. That position doesn't even make sense. If someone falsely claims asylum, that could be a crime. It is not required that the United States accept every claim, but a claim as such is not a criminal act.

We could grant that inhumane conditions and treatment of immigrants predates this administration. Indeed, advocates for immigrants had been suing the Obama administration throughout, and in many cases, rightly so. This policy of actively separating asylum-seekers from their children is weeks old.

Some advocates for the present administration blame a Flores directive from 1997, but the only relevant fact there is a limit to the detention of a child. Are you really suggesting that holding a child even longer would be acceptable?

Child psychology experts are telling us that the separation inflicts a trauma that may not be able to be undone. If we are somehow unable to know that this is wrong, we have corroborating evidence.

If indeed there is a risk of sex trafficking by releasing "families" intact, this does not permit the government to break apart actual families, in service to another dubious end.


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Nathan said…
I'd like to see DNA tests at the border to prove parentage and thwart child abuse. The long term solution is open borders with reasonable health and safety screenings. Trump didn't create the horror show of a border we've been running for decades, in fact it is his frienemies in the three letter agencies who've been wreaking bloody havoc in Latin America. So I can't join the racist Trump side or the globalist/elitist media side; I want a Christian side that welcomes immigrants and avoids wars and assassinations.
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