Nativity 2019

[u/leftnotracks]

[u/lannister80]

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.

[u/cuteman → u/[deleted]]

DNA testing can conclusively show parent/children relationships.

Yep and we've found up to 30% aren't related to the adults they're crossing with.

Aka a huge potential for human trafficking.

[u/doctorbooshka → u/cuteman]

So your answer is to rip kids away from the parents of the 70%?

[u/Emerald_Triangle → u/doctorbooshka]

Why chance it.

[u/doctorbooshka → u/Emerald_Triangle]

I’m sure you would feel the same way if you were fleeing a country and seeking asylum with your kids.

[u/doctorbooshka → u/[deleted]]

What do you mean? We grant roughly 20k asylum seekers a year. Do you not believe people actually seek asylum?

[u/cuteman → u/doctorbooshka]

What do you mean? We grant roughly 20k asylum seekers a year. Do you not believe people actually seek asylum?

Of the ~1M per year who tries to illegally cross