When you're attempting to tug at heart strings to affect policy, you're probably a Dem. Bad dudes can entice/force young children to travel with them and coerce them to lie and say that they are "a family". Separating them for a period can allow an investigator to potentially get the truth out of the child. Letting the bad dudes know ahead of time that these coerced children will be separated from them when caught could help end the practice. Sobbing into the nearest camera about "the children" as some Dems did only invites further abuses. They are separated from their family, but are taken care of while in custody. They are not being abused. Some might say a border jumper bringing small children with them through the cover of darkness is abuse.

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