Perhaps I'm missing something,but we are talking about people who broke the law,by trying to enter the country illegally ?
Last time I looked,that's a crime.
You are missing something. Historically, there have been designated points of entry for asylum seekers. It is perfectly legal to cross the border at designated points of entry and apply for asylum. This is the tract that the vast majority of immigrants from places like El Salvador and Guatemala -- countries that account for the majority of crossings at the southern border -- are taking. They are fleeing crime ridden countries where rape and murder is rampant and claiming attempting to seek asylum in the United States.
The Trump administration has turned immigrants following the rules and entering the country at ports of entry illegally away by the thousands. They have made it nearly impossible to immigrate legally, thus creating an influx of illegal crossings and then prosecuting those immigrants and separating their families.
It's inhumane. You can argue in favor of the law all you want, but we are treating the most vulnerable amongst us as less than people. It should make any moral person sick.
The separation policy goes back to at least October,so the people trying to cross the border illegally know the consequences of their actions.
This doesn't make it any less ugly. It's also morally repugnant. You're policy position here is that we should ask immigrants to choose between living in fear in countries with rampant murder and rape and being separated from their children. Your policy position, to be perfectly clear, is an attempt to create a fate for immigrants in the United States that is worse than rape and murder in El Salvador or Honduras.
We should probably just go ahead and get rid of the Statue of Liberty if that's who we are now.
Under President Obama the Government tried to keep families together by housing them in detention centers.Funny,never heard them labeled internment or concentration camps.
The ACLU sued him and won. The detention centers were deemed cruel and unusual punishment. Sorry that liberals were inconsistent. Does that alter the morality here in any way?
Then the courts ruled against that policy.That led to "catch and release".
Get a ticket and then disappear.
There's a very simple solution to the issue of separating families.
Don't try to enter the U.S. illegally.
The new engraving on the Statue of Liberty should read "Sorry that your country is a hell-scape, but we're no longer a city on the hill. Because something something jobs."
The same administration that lies about the crime rate and insists MS-13 is some grave national threat is forcing people seeking asylum from MS-13 to turn around or risk losing their children. Cool policy.
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Like I said,if someone wants to immigrate to the US,or seek asylum here,fine.
Just follow the rules.
That's what my relatives did.
I assume yours did to.
If you don't want to follow the rules,don't blame someone else for the consequences of your actions.
As far as illegal aliens affecting jobs,if you're here illegally you're not supposed to able to work.
In fact,whenever I hire anyone,they have to provide proof that they are allowed to work in the states.
So,if an illegal alien is working, its either "off the books".A crime for both the alien and the employer.
Or using false documents.
Another crime.