(06-19-2018, 06:31 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: Just so I'm clear, we don't have a better solution? Because it seems like everyone that's upset with this one should have a better one on the table.

If these people crossed at a station and applied for amnesty, they wouldn't be separated from each other. Who is to blame here?

This is nothing new.  If "parents" choose to break the law by installing a meth lab in their home and get caught, guess what?  The children are removed while the "parents" undergo criminal proceedings.  This is the same thing.  Children are removed from their parents because said parents broke the law by coming into this country illegally.  These aren't kids/families that arrived at designated border crossings, these are kids/families that have crossed the border illegally and many times they aren't "families", the children are used to "increase the likelihood" that these illegal aliens will be granted amnesty.

As someone who grew up in the southwest in a border state (New Mexico) I can tell you that there are THOUSANDS of them here and deporting them is no issue to them.  I remember my time as a Deputy Sheriff arresting illegals for whatever reason and telling them I was turning them over to immigration authorities and that they would be deported.  More often than not they laughed and said that they would be back on the first train headed north.

The thing is, my experience was back in the 80's.  Nothing has changed.

This whole "separating children from parents" and "breaking up families" thing is one big huge nothing-burger.  It happens every day when "parents" break the law.

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