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Don't trivialize the issue.
Maybe you should also petition and push for help on the Democrat side instead of just pointing the finger across the isle.
FWIW when I was 12 my dad drove me across the Canadian border to visit some family, and the Canadian police couldn't verify he wasn't some random kidnapper, so they detained and separated us for hours while they tried to contact my mom (this was before cell phones). A ton of hassle to verify that my dad was who he said he was, but ultimately it was for my own safety. I don't really see the difference, except in the case of the ICE detainees, the parents are also criminals for crossing the border illegally. (Aren't criminals in our own country separated from their children when they're arrested?)
Sure downvote me because it hurts your feelings but logically you're wrong.
1) Do we disagree on the facts of the matter?
2) Why does entering the US illegally count as a trivial affair?
Looks like I cannot reply anymore in this thread. Thanks to alasdair_ and sp332 for civil replies that provide facts to support their views.
This is not the case. Even a family that arrives together and requests asylum will be split up. See (for example) https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/us/guatemalan-immigrant-famil...
"After the rest of the family took their chances by presenting themselves to US immigration authorities, the possibility of forced separation became reality. The 20-year-old son was sent to a detention center in San Diego. Maria and her three youngest children were shipped to a family detention center in Dilley, Texas -- about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio."
"The two youngest members of the Villatoro family are now at a detention center in New York state while their mom remains detained in Texas."
>1) Do we disagree on the facts of the matter?
Yes. Your understanding doesn't seem to match the current policy or well-documented effects of said policy.
>2) Why does entering the US illegally count as a trivial affair?
It's not trivial. The issue is that a four year old child can't meaningfully be held to have committed a crime and so should not be incarcerated.
Normally a child will be sent to some kind of foster care if they cannot be with their parents, not taken from their parent and held in a chainlink cage.
> Fluharty questions the grounds for the separation of Maria and her children. She said her client walked up to the border and turned herself in to immigration authorities, which contradicts ICE's claim that she was arrested after crossing the border illegally.
This is also complicated by the fact that Maria falsely claimed US citizenship and thus is barred from entering the US for life.
Do you have a case of someone not barred from entering the US for life has their children separated from them?
When you make the assertion that "Entering a country illegally doesn't deny you of basic human rights" are you contending that the families should be kept together or that a different basic right is being denied?
...You're aware this is actually happening, right? Here's BBC on the matter: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942
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To those insisting on calling this a cage, I hope you realize that every jail in the world looks like this. These people (not children in the picture) are under arrest for illegal immigration. They are going to be detained somewhere.
The CBP is uncomfortable with reporters using the term "cages" but have stated that it is not an inaccurate description. -CBS morning news.
I linked above to a photograph for you showing young children (not adults) kept in the same cages.
Even if you don't care about the adults, young children are blameless. In every other type of case like this, when an adult commits a crime and their child is with them, the child is placed in temporary foster care until more suitable accommodations can be found. They don't get taken from their parents and stuck in a metal cage for weeks on end.
The only reason to call it something else would be to pretend it's not a cage.
I take it you haven't seen the video footage of these places yet?
personally i think i'd prefer the cheap fencing material, as it would allow for better ventilation.
Use your eyes.
Here is a recent photograph of children in chainlink cages from The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/ceci-ne...
What the photograph in The Atlantic shows is a large room, not a cage.
"Several" employees spoke to Gizmodo, and of those, two are considering leaving. However, the several individuals are reporting that many employees are expressing dissent.
Thought I'd only see that article on the Onion but here we are.