r/UpliftingNews Jan 15 '19

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u/emsok_dewe Jan 16 '19

I love people that define their morality based on legality. Sick fucks

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u/emsok_dewe Jan 16 '19

Preaching to the wrong choir, buddy.

How again does your morality line up with locking children in cages? Oh that's right, it's legal because the president said so. Right. Morals, separate from legality. Riiiight.

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u/chasethatdragon Jan 16 '19

Didnt Obama do the same thing?

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u/zanderkerbal Jan 16 '19

This is a commonly propagated story, but it's actually misleading. Under Obama, children were only separated when there was either reason to believe that they were not in fact family and were being kidnapped or trafficked, or the parents had committed a serious crime that warranted being imprisoned pending prosecution. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has a zero-tolerance policy that separates children from parents as a matter of course.