Hypothetical here, so we make sure we're being objective about this.
If a single mother steals a loaf of bread, and is taken to jail
No one would be taken to jail for a misdemeanor offense like stealing a loaf of bread. And that’s rather the point. The crime doesn’t fit the punishment.
The only way any prosecutor would even consider going after a jail sentence would be if the person in question committed a serious felony offense, such as grand larceny, like stealing a car. And even then the threshold for jail would be very high (i.e., fines first; then community service; mitigation for first time offense; etc).
So, yeah, if anyone were
imprisoned for stealing a $2 loaf of bread and had their children taken from them and their children were
also imprisoned in specially erected detention camps for children of mothers whose only crime was stealing $2 worth of bread, that would absolutely qualify as being held captive.
But more to the point, not filling out paperwork and waiting upwards of
decades due to government worker backlog/indifference/incompetence/artificial and/or politically motivated quota restrictions just to get an official piece of paper that has no intrinsic value and does not in any way reflect anything relevant about the
individual (other than their ignorance or desperation) is not even as bad a crime as stealing a lousy $2 loaf of bread, but even if it were on par with such an egregious act, that STILL would not justify indefinitely detaining one's children.
Again, just imagine men in jackboots and riot gear breaking into your home and taking your children away from you--indefinitely--because you never filled out paperwork for a driver's license. You know how to drive and you've never once had a ticket or got into an accident in all the years you’ve been driving, but for whatever reason you didn't fill out a piece of paper and for
that "crime" and that "crime" alone your children are thrown in cages.
Does
that qualify as "being held captive"?
If not, then add on to all of that the fact that it was the stated policy of your governor to deliberately take away and imprison your children because of a "zero tolerance" policy shift in regard to people who have otherwise perfect driving abilities and records but did not fill out a piece of paper to get a little card that does nothing more than confirm that you filled out a piece of paper. Iow, your governor is literally holding your children captive as punishment to you, blackmail to you and draconian warning to anyone else who might dare not fill out a piece of paper all in the guise of some
other motive than the stated “letter of the law” dodge.
None of this nonsense has anything to do with the letter of the law. Undocumented immigrants not only don’t cost us anything, they contribute
billions of dollars into our economy and Social Security fund every year. They don’t take anyone’s job away from them, 96% of them have never committed any crime beyond not filling out a piece of paper and
60% have lived here for more than a decade, so why exactly is this all so dire all of sudden that anyone would even consider child detention camps? One word: miscegenation.
I won't ask if that would "qualify" as "being held captive" because it is just a straight fact at that point as stated directly by the governor that your children are indeed being held captive by the state.
And although others have already addressed it, in regard to something being "in aid of," that means in preparation for or geared towards or in order to foment. It doesn't matter whether or not America is currently a fascist state as in its fundamental structure. Fascism is an ideology, not necessarily solely a condition of State and anything in aid of such a state would obviously be such steps as abusing the power of government in such nefarious fashion.
It shows that he's a slimeball that will exploit any loophole in the law that he thinks he can get away with.