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Originally Posted by Seneca Pilot
It is an intellectually empty argument to attempt to make the case that what happened there was anything other than the fault of the parents making the decision to illegally enter the country. There is a legal process that will protect the family unit but it takes time and jumping the line is so much easier, unless you get caught.
It is an intellectually empty argument to ignore the fact that thousands of these families were fleeing persecution in their home countries where they could not afford to wait for years. It is also an intellectually empty argument to blame the parents for being torn from their kids when they made an attempt to cross to save their kids' lives in many cases.
Put yourself in their shoes for a minute. You live somewhere and there is a credible and imminent threat to you and your family's lives. Your choices are to submit the paperwork in an expensive, inaccessible, and time-consuming process that takes years, or you can protect your family immediately by seeking asylum. If it were my kids, I would do anything to protect them.
This was a needlessly cruel policy. Your point about it having to do with children not being allowed in adult facilities is also patently wrong. Children were kept in adult facilities; they were just separated from their parents in order to send a cruel message to those who thought America would offer them safety.
How anyone can rationalize such a needlessly cruel and abjectly unjust policy is baffling to me.