Flytolive

Apparently it is for you. What should we do with the Statue of Liberty? What about the asylum seekers? Did this little girl deserve to possibly never see her mother again? If your answer is yes then you are one cold-hearted SOB.

Rawhide16

I agree that the kids are the victims here. Unfortunately their idiot parents broke the law. It's no different for my children if I break the law.

Asylum seekers are not law breakers and are not separated from their families.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/62106...-at-the-border

Flytolive

And the Bush and Obama administrations did not systemically separate children from their parents.

The Trump administration did everything to make it as difficult as possible for these folks to access the asylum process. They turned people away at the legitimate ports of entry in some very dangerous places and rewrote what was valid reasons for seeking asylum.

Rawhide16

So what would you do if you were President for a day since you have all the answers? I'm surprised that Trump changed the previous policies since they were obviously working so well.

Flytolive

Yah. If that is working great I would hate to see abysmal.

Rawhide16

It's like you're not even reading my posts.

Anyway, there are going to be unfortunate victims in this "war" on illegal immigration and unfortunately it's the innocent children as is usually the case. However, in typical new-age fashion, you're placing blame on everyone but the criminals. Trump didn't take these kids away from their parents. Their parents did that by breaking the law and bringing their kids with them. I feel terrible for the kids but it's no one else's fault but their criminal parents.

In the handful of alleged cases where asylum seekers are being turned away, that is wrong and should be corrected. However, that is not Trump's policy. That is an issue that likely happened because the border is being bombarded and just cannot handle the amount of people attempting to cross. It needs to be fixed.

There are also reports that some of the children being brought across the border with their "parents" can't even answer simple questions about their "parents". Spoiler alert: they're likely not related. Oh, and human trafficking is also a serious concern with the number of people crossing the border daily.

The issue is much larger than CNN has told you. I can admire your emotional response but you have to keep the bigger picture in mind. We have to send a strong signal which will hopefully be a deterrence in the future to keep this from happening long term.

kevinc5

Are you virtue signalling?

nAAtive

Regardless of ones viewpoints It’s horrible that my company is being political. Shame on AA

Rawhide16

I don’t know what that is. Is that the term of the week that the media is throwing around?

Rawhide16

Had to look that one up. No. I’m strictly pointing out the irony.