Why do we separate convicted bank robbers from their children?

[Legion]

Why don't DIMOcrats pass legislation if they don't like it. Rather that obstructing then hiding. All disgusting pigs.

They've had ample opportunities, haven't they?

[USFREEDOM911]

Do they? Why so many in custody then?

UH, maybe because they can't find other family members.

[christiefan915]

Not exactly au courant with events, are you?

The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement is now overseeing an estimated 100 shelters in 17 states, serving a population that has grown to more than 11,000 youths.

The Trump administration has begun prosecuting migrants who cross the border illegally.

Previously, parents traveling with children were often quickly released with orders to appear later in court — a practice which members of the current administration say was providing a powerful incentive for migrants to take their children in tow and travel to the United States. The number of families apprehended at the border has gone up nearly 600 percent compared with the spring of last year, the Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, told Congress in May.

The average length of stay in a migrant children’s shelter is about 56 days, after which children generally are released to a sponsor. Some have been placed with foster families.

Only 3.5 percent of unaccompanied youths who have arrived from Central America have been returned to their home countries, Ms. Nielsen said in her report to Congress.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/us/family-separation-migrant-children-detention.html

We have some of those kids right here in PA. But the question was about family members meeting the migrants at the border and taking the kids if parents were detained.

[Irish]

They've had ample opportunities, haven't they?

Yes, and Trump have them everything they wanted. Including 3M DACA's. They STILL refused to pass anything.

[Legion]

The children are not put in jails, they are handed over to HHS and placed in safe homes until their parents have been prosecuted.

I don't recall the Counselor or Christiecrite complaining when Obama "ripped children from their families", do you?

[USFREEDOM911]

Easy. keep the mother and kids together. Not hard to figure out. Then have a quick, fair and honest evaluation of their qualifications to enter the US.

Where??

So you want to put the children with her, in prison!!

[Legion]

We have some of those kids right here in PA. But the question was about family members meeting the migrants at the border and taking the kids if parents were detained.

Do you have any confirmed accounts of "family members" who wanted to meet "the migrants at the border" for the purpose of "taking the kids if parents were detained?"

[Legion]

Yes, and Trump have them everything they wanted. Including 3M DACA's. They STILL refused to pass anything.

Didn't Obama have a DEMOCRAT Congressional majority for a while?

[Legion]

Where??

So you want to put the children with her, in prison!!

I think what Nerdberg and the other partisan SJW hypocrites want is to cry about Trump choosing to enforce the law while they pretend that Obama didn't separate illegal immigrant families too.

[christiefan915]

I don't recall the Counselor or Christiecrite complaining when Obama "ripped children from their families", do you?

I recall immigrant hawks calling Obama's plan "catch and release."

[Legion]

I recall immigrant hawks calling Obama's plan "catch and release."

They were right to do so, IMO. Y O U, on the other hand said...what?

[USFREEDOM911]

I think what Nerdberg and the other partisan SJW hypocrites want is to cry about Trump choosing to enforce the law while they pretend that Obama didn't separate illegal immigrant families too.

Yeah, they kind of have a short term memory loss over that.

Plus they're never going to admit that Obama did anything they don't approve of.

[Damocles]

Didn't Obama have a DEMOCRAT Congressional majority for a while?

In both houses, for two years, and for a short period they had a filibuster proof Senate too. They used their majority to foist the "Affordable" Care Act upon us but conveniently "forgot" to pass any laws on immigration or on gun control.

[USFREEDOM911]

I recall immigrant hawks calling Obama's plan "catch and release."

For some of them; but not all.

And then over 80% of the "catch and release" illegal immigrants never bothered to show up for their hearings.

[Nordberg]

The children are not put in jails, they are handed over to HHS and placed in safe homes until their parents have been prosecuted.

Nope. You believe they will in the future, but they are being jailed, in secret . Nobody is allowed to show how the kids are being treated.If they were being treated well, they would have the doors wide open for the press.