(06-19-2018, 10:45 AM)Kotite Wrote: Better than all the anti abortion morality police emptying the orphanages.

It isn't a matter of whether or not these families are ever granted asylum into the US. It is mind [BLEEP] young kids who have no say in what happens to them. If our policy is to turn away 100% of the people trying to get in, it is a far cry from our founding principles, but it can be done with decency. This is wholly unnecessary and a practice this administration is clearly choosing to employ unilaterally. It speaks volumes about whonwe are as a people to treat kids this way.

Just to be clear, for the last 45 years you and your ilk have advocated for and cheered depriving an entire class of children any constitutional rights EXPRESSLY FOR THE PURPOSE of mass arbitrary EXECUTION.  This has resulted in the deaths of more than 50 million American children and will be considered one of the greatest sins to ever blight the soul of humanity.  

Conversely, even the current "crisis" is a part of our country EXTENDING constitutional protections and due process rights to millions and millions of people who WERE NOT born here or by blood to American citizens.  

The criminal justice system can be harsh, but it can be harsh for migrants and citizens alike.  Any family unit of citizens where the parents were taken into pre-trial detention or other criminal proceedings would see the children become wards of the state until the issue was resolved.  It happens every day for offenses much less egregious on their face than illegally violating the sovereign border of our nation.

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