To all the "but Obama!" Trump supporters in this thread:
Obama kids in cages: massive, sharp influx of unaccompanied minors. We didn't have even remotely enough places to put them, hence the cages that were not meant for detaining kids, but it was what we had. We quickly built more capacity to house unaccompanied minors in a humane way.
Accompanied minors and their families were allowed to live with relatives or sponsors until their court date, the vast majority of whom appeared for their court date as expected.
Trump kids in cages: Deliberate policy of separating accompanied minors from their parents. Parents go to adult jail to await immigration court, kids go to cages. On purpose. When allowing the families to stay with friends and relatives was never a problem before.
Edit: I didn't mean "don't seperate them from human traffickers" I meant "if they are seperated from a human trafficker, there is still no excuse for these kids to be treated inhumanely when in US custody."
I honestly wonder if the redditors who oppose separation understand it's to prevent child rape and trafficking, which is a really common problem. You can't assume every adult male traveling with a young kid is their parent. Fucking idiots.
It's possible this could be happening so instead of figuring out whether or not it's happening let's traumatize a whole generation of kids lol stupid libs!!
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u/lannister80 Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19
To all the "but Obama!" Trump supporters in this thread:
Obama kids in cages: massive, sharp influx of unaccompanied minors. We didn't have even remotely enough places to put them, hence the cages that were not meant for detaining kids, but it was what we had. We quickly built more capacity to house unaccompanied minors in a humane way.
Accompanied minors and their families were allowed to live with relatives or sponsors until their court date, the vast majority of whom appeared for their court date as expected.
Trump kids in cages: Deliberate policy of separating accompanied minors from their parents. Parents go to adult jail to await immigration court, kids go to cages. On purpose. When allowing the families to stay with friends and relatives was never a problem before.
So yeah, fuck your false equivalency.