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"If you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you as required by law," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday at a law enforcement conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. "If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border."
Administration officials explain that the goal of the program is 100 percent prosecution of all who enter the US illegally. When adults are prosecuted and jailed, their children will be separated from them, just as would happen for a US citizen convicted and jailed.
You have a good point but I'm hoping that after what Sessions announced that it will discourage these parents from bringing their kids here illegally and that they think enough of their kids not to desert them and come here either.
If they stayed with their parents, who will be housed in a detention center, we'd be accused of jailing children. What are we to do--give them suites at the Sheraton?
If they stayed with their parents, who will be housed in a detention center, we'd be accused of jailing children. What are we to do--give them suites at the Sheraton?
This is effectively being done to punish people without the rule of law. IE pre-emptively.
We have people who have had their children taken from them while they are seeking asylum who WILL end up being US citizens....but who we punished without proper judicial review.
We have throughout decades said that family unity was important. To toss it away is a decision based on hatred and fear, not logic. Deport those we need to deport, but separating families is cruel and stupid.
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