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Perhaps the time for considering whether you want your family to be "ripped apart" is before you've committed the crime.
If you believe in borders there is little alternative to the approach being taken now.
https://newsthump.com/2018/06/19/history-is-littered-with-examples-of-the-good-guys-locking-children-cages-insists-donald-trump/
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/jeff-sessions-immigration-border-separation/index.html
Yes, they were stopping them from leaving the country BY TAKING THEM TO CAMPS WHERE MOST OF THEM WOULD DIE.
The numbers of children affected from April 19 to May 31 is perfect for Trump: a tiny demographic, win big with your core voter.
So your initial sympathy for the wellbeing of children essentially backfires into the above situation - people with kids can do as they please. So suddenly all the kids of the law abiding have to live in lawless anarchy.
Policy makers should make decisions based on population-level benefits rather than individual-level benefits. This is anathema to many these days, I'm sure, but Spock was right - the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Since we still have borders in this world, they need to be policed, and those that break the law should be punished as society sees fit.
I'm not denying it must be shit to have a criminal for a parent, though.
Either you deal with the criminal in the way the law states, or change the law. I'd be happy to debate either. But this weird thinking that because it's an immigration offence somehow the law should be chucked in the bin just doesn't make sense to me.
To say these people just "want to make a better home/life for themselves" is justifying breaking the law to achieve it. I'd personally would like a better home and life for myself but have been able to prevent myself from breaking the law to achieve it because I know there are consequences.
Like being away from my kids.
First, having children or any other innocent dependants means that if you are punished for your crime then your innocent dependants will be impacted, potentially in life-changing ways. But the existence of such impact should not protect you from justice and due punishment. Therefore, it is acceptable that the punishments imposed by the law will impact the innocent dependants. Even to the cruel levels of seperating the child from their beloved criminal parent, be they a bank robber, killer, forger, repeat offender for drink-driving, guilty of contempt of court, etc.
Second, Trump is using the current law and ruling to apply punishment of seperation during the process, before justice has concluded. He is, in effect, elevating the seriousness of the crime of illegal immigration to be more in line with far more dangerous crimes.
He is being wilfully cruel as a deterrent. I doubt it will lose him many votes. Many Americans feel ambivalent towards him but I'd still bet on him getting re-elected in the absence of any new contender. They dislike him as a person but they like him for not being a typical Washington politician.
So many horrific cruel abuses in history have been justified to the public by condemning the victims as criminals, I cant help but see a dark end to all this.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
President Trump has told Congress to pass new immigration legislation that deals with the controversial policy of separating undocumented immigrant families entering the US.
The president told a meeting of Republicans in the House of Representatives last night to pass a bill. “We have to take care of separation,” one congressman quoted him as saying, according to the Wall Street Journal. “It’s too nasty, it’s too nasty.”
“We had a great meeting,” he said afterwards, adding that he backed both immigration bills under discussion in the legislature.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Trump can revoke it without Congress but it's unconstitutional and I don't think Congress will have an issue with passing it especially with all of the outrage in the media.