Children in cages = Trump's wall?

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Is it possible that separating families has created Trump's Wall?
What family will present themselves as refugees if they know they might never see each other again?
Would you rather die than give away your children to an unknown fate?

Honestly, has he done it? Is this his Wall?

And who will pay for it? Of course, the country that ransoms the children!

From what I saw we give the children medical care, set them up with family’s and provide them education and path to citizenship. I’d say send them back to their nations. Hardly cages.
Who sends their child alone to another nation?

This article is the best I've seen into what's going on inside the internment camps. There's also some audio here which is a must-listen.

While I'm not at all pleased with how many European countries treat asylum seekers, none have policies quite as monstrous as separating children from their parents (although Italy might do if the Lega retain control, given their horrible anti-Roma policies). America has gone from being the land of the free, to having a worse immigration policy than a literal fascist country like Hungary.

This is anti-American. It is a dark, ugly stain upon one of the best countries in the world, and everyone who cares about America should be fighting it.

Seems like they need to segregate adults and children.

Otherwise kids are vulnerable to being harmed/molested by adults.

Mr. Trump has turned into this nation's "Child-Abuser-By-Proxy-In-Chief".

We always knew he was both sexist and racist; now we find out that he hates (foreign) kids, as well.

Sad.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Lady Liberty would cry if she could.

Can someone who has talked to one of these people in real life weigh in? There’s a lot of speculation going on here. I don’t like throwing out this “children in cages” thing because we are only seeing limited images or video of this and can’t judge what’s going on. We can get a better picture if we can relate stories of people we have actually met and what happened to them.

When I was teaching at the refugee center, we also welcomed illegals to our classes, since they were free classes and we didn’t care who came. I had one illegal Mexican student, who had a son born in America. She said she had come across with the boys father, who had since been put in jail (sounded like gang stuff but I didn’t pry). She didn’t say how they got here. I did get the impression that she had gotten away from something bad by separating from the dad. But then she was left here with their child, not knowing what to do. She was VERY smart and nice. I told her it was a waste if she didn’t go to college. I referred her to our attorney, who said she could start the paperwork process, but it would be costly. Not undoable, but a couple thousand maybe? I forget exactly. I could be wrong on that figure.

It sounded to me like it would be the same process as my brother in laws English immigration. You get a sponsor, you have to prove you can support yourself, and you have to pass tests and pay fees. At the time, this girl decided not to do the process because Obama was not enforcing deportations, and I also discovered that there was a loophole for her to go to community college without a social security number. I don’t know what happened to her after I stopped teaching. I provided her with the information and did not advise her, because that would not have been right in my mind.

That was my real story of an actual illegal immigrant. Maybe someone else has a more recent story?

I know a few people who were initially illegal immigrants who went that route-----marriages, sponsors, fees. Many eventually became citizens. It's a hard process---but doable.

Still.....separating kids from mothers....not good policy.

I never understood why a country built up by illegal immigrants can ever be so harsh on them.