There IS a migrant crisis, and it's the children who continue to remain separated from parents

[phands]

It's easy to forget this in the political din emanating from the tangerine turd...

Unchecked by a Republican Congress, Donald Trump has only felt more emboldened, openly floating the possibility of instituting family separation 2.0, in response to his fake crisis and other anti-immigrant fearmongering. But the real crisis here are the 1,500 kids languishing in a prison camp in the Texas desert, the overall record number of migrant kids the Trump administration has in detention, and the forgotten children who continue to remain separated from parents. Remember them, and vote.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/748a3f6b-6447-4af5-9cf9-5feec1a0f177

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

What was Trump's explanation why they took them in to begin with? Why didn't they just turn them away and build his big wall he keeps talking about to stop them from coming back?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I'm sorry, but hasn't America as a nation moved past and forgotten about the fact that their government is ripping children out of the arms of their parents and putting them in jail?

 

[Worldtraveller]

I'm sorry, but hasn't America as a nation moved past and forgotten about the fact that their government is ripping children out of the arms of their parents and putting them in jail?

Yeah, phands. This is old news. We've moved on.

Sadly, apparently, this seems to be true for a good chunk of the population.

 

[Derec]

What was Trump's explanation why they took them in to begin with? Why didn't they just turn them away and build his big wall he keeps talking about to stop them from coming back?

A judge ruled that they could not be detained together. So it was either this or "catch and release". But if Trump was really such a great deal maker, he'd just hash out a deal with PM Jihad Socks to send all these illegals (and their kids) up your way to Canuckistan.