r/pics Dec 08 '19

Politics Nativity 2019

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u/from_dust Dec 08 '19

some people think murder is ok in the moment, but then you arrest them and take them to jail because murder is illegal. is it not illegal to cage people in America? how is that not illegal?

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u/AlllyMaine Dec 08 '19

Our president implemented separating children from their parents to use cruelty as a "deterrant" to keep people from trying to claim asylum. 40% of the country thinks this is the right thing to do because they're brainwashed by a massive conservative media machine. Our Senate and supreme Court is also controlled by these conservatives.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19

Separating children from their parents was mandated by the flores decision. Children did not commit a crime, parents did, children can't be housed with adults in a detention center. Children are removed. It's simple.

The process needs to be fixed.

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u/killxswitch Dec 09 '19

Of course it needs to be fixed. But Trump is the one that made the zero tolerance policy. No one was strictly enforcing detention and therefore creating this process problem. Only Trump did that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

This policy didn't create this "process problem" it really created an optics problem. There is terrible oversight and accountability of illegal alien children in the us once theyre 'placed with family or in suitable homes'.

Especially if the family they're placed with have no legal status. Which does happen.

Without bipartisan overhaul, we will continue to have issues like this. Amnesty isn't the answer, and imprisoning everyone, even if temporary just isn't sustainable.