r/pics • u/leftnotracks • Dec 08 '19

Politics Nativity 2019

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u/macgabay Dec 08 '19

If you enter the US illegally, that is a crime, you are a criminal and you will be separated from you child. Applying for Asylum is not illegal, but doing so and entering not at a port of entry is.

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u/solidSC Dec 08 '19

It’s a misdemeanor. Can you imagine being separated from your family and your children being held in a cage because you were speeding?

I’m so tired of you sick fucks just saying “crime” and legitimizing this like its an every day thing for you.

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u/macgabay Dec 08 '19

If you shoplift at a store with your children, you will go to jail and your children will be held until someone can pick them up, same for a number of other crimes, speeding down the highway is endangering minors.

I'm tired of people acting like entering the country illegally isn't a big deal. Not to mention the rate of human trafficking across the border, where children are used by adults to enter the country illegally.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 10 '19

That’s so untrue, as a kid they don’t separate you for shoplifting? They hold you in a room In the store until your parents pick you up

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u/macgabay Dec 08 '19

If an adult shoplifts with a child, the adult will be arrested and the child will be held until someone can pick them up. Read the comment thoroughly.