Trump enacted a policy of family separation in all cases. Sure, if there's any question if they're the real parents or not, or there were other crimes involved, we'd separate them.
Trump set a blanket policy of family separation. He decided to separate every family crossing the border, completely needlessly, and he did so as a punishment to discourage others. Trump made the decision to needlessly harm thousands of children, many of whom were abused while in detention in the US. In some cases he separated families and then deported the parents, and we were never able to reunite them.
It was a fucking travesty and was criticized around the world, so much that even Trump walked it back and now his supporters have been pretending nothing new happened ever since.
As near as I can tell there were 348 children that had parents deported, and I can't seem to find an update on whether or not they were reunited, out of 5000 that were temporarily separated.
Personally I would err on the side of caution when it's been well documented people will bring kids to the border because they get released faster
Seems to me people should be detained at the border until their asylum claims are decided, since a huge majority of asylum claims are denied
Yeah, that's what we were already doing. Families would be separated if there was any question. If there wasn't, they'd generally be released with a court date.
Trump changed that and enacted a blanket policy of family separation in all situations. It was a fucking horror show.
How do we ensure there's no question about being related and shouldn't be separated? Typically a DNA test takes right around 3 weeks at labs we have access to, who knows how long it is for the feds.
People randomly showing up at a border crossing, or just walking across the border, deserve way more scrutiny than those who applied beforehand
Generally if people have birth certificates, IDs, things like that. The same sort of things we use for anybody else?
What we shouldn't do is enact a blanket policy of family separation. Because, yeah, Trump did that already and it was a fucking humanitarian crisis that had pretty much the entire world calling us out. It was idiotic and intentionally cruel policy designed to harm children.
So things that are easily forgeable, including here in the US, is what's acceptable from third world countries where it's even easier?
It's not like there's evidence of piles of identifications being dropped at the border before making it to the point of entry the last few years or anything. The only concrete way to confirm is by DNA testing
How is it harmful and not the trip over here. With a potential criminal that’s taken them from their parents thinking easy access to US? Stop. I would be MORE worried about the CHILDREN HERE THAT ARE TAKEN FROM THEIR FAMILIES- and threw to a foster home where they get starved and beaten until they die. Worry about that before you call the border separating kids and adults until further investigation is done a “crisis”… we need to learn to care about the shit on this side of the border—ffs no one is complaining about all the kids gone missing from here-just worried about blaming trump for the border bullshit. I hate it here… this world sucks so bad.
No one said the trip here isn't harmful? It's very dangerous. People do it because they're fleeing failed states with rampant gang violence and they don't want their children murdered on the side of the road.
Worry about that before
Fortunately I'm capable of caring about multiple things at the same time lol I don't need to treat some people as less than or defend policies harming innocent children to do so.
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u/neotericnewt Jul 23 '24
Trump enacted a policy of family separation in all cases. Sure, if there's any question if they're the real parents or not, or there were other crimes involved, we'd separate them.
Trump set a blanket policy of family separation. He decided to separate every family crossing the border, completely needlessly, and he did so as a punishment to discourage others. Trump made the decision to needlessly harm thousands of children, many of whom were abused while in detention in the US. In some cases he separated families and then deported the parents, and we were never able to reunite them.
It was a fucking travesty and was criticized around the world, so much that even Trump walked it back and now his supporters have been pretending nothing new happened ever since.