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I'm guessing the downvotes are coming because you are defending a policy which is objectively cruel. To say "this is official policy" doesn't stop the reality of the cruelty.

Generally people don't support this. Therefore, downvotes.

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I didn't read his comment to be a defense so much as a pointing out of the hypocrisy of only being outraged about this now, when it applies to illegal immigrants, but not when it applies to the US's own citizens.

Then why aren't people up in arms about the orders of magnitude more people who are separated from their children during normal (non-illegal-immigration) police or judicial events?

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