John G
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I've answered it for you three times - you just don't happen to like the answer, which for the third (possibly fourth or fifth) time is that this year is the first time it's been used to detain children separated from their parents because their parents crossed the border illegally.You are clearly not going to answer the question that has been put to you three times, probably because you have now googled it and realised that you were talking mince earlier when you claimed these places have only been opened this year.
The facility in the former Walmart in Brownsville was announced in January 2017 and opened in March 2017. It is the fourth such facility in Brownsville alone.
Closed Wal-Mart in Brownsville to Reopen as Shelter for Unaccompanied Minors
The rest of the waffle about accompanied vs unaccompanied is just waffle. Yes, there have been significantly more children separated from their families since the change in policy but there have been separations going on for years.
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/defau..._unaccompanied_alien_childrens_services_0.pdf
Most of the rest of what you wrote is also wrong but I am done dancing in circles with you for tonight, life is too short.
That you have to pretend it's otherwise is rather sad, but no more than your pretence that separating children from their parents has ever happened before as routine or as deliberate policy. It hasn't, and pretending it has and only the degree has changed is not only an outright lie but pathetically weak - if you think it's acceptable at least have the guts to say so.
As above - blurring the truth and coming out with "it may have been less" to try to excuse it is simply gutless.I live here within two hours of the border - You live on the other side of the world and have no first hand experience. You rely on vague terms you googled. One Buddy is a Border patrol agent and another is in an AZ militia.
Accompanied children, under certain circumstances have been separated for several years. It may have been less during parts of Obamas term, as he let them go essentially.
Separating Kids at Border: The Truth | National Review
I may not agree with those who think that the ends justify the means, but at least I can respect their honesty.
You don't need "first hand experience" to know right from wrong and punishing little children for their parents trying to get a better life for themselves and their kids is wrong and, whatever your politics, you should have the guts to say so instead of trying to excuse it by pretending it happened before. Gutless.
I don't know what the answer is to the world-wide problem of refugees and immigration and don't pretend to, but I know that taking kids away from their parents and putting them in detention camps, deliberately letting people drown in the Mediterranean, burning people out in Burma, or dumping them on PNG have to be the wrong answers.
(edited to change 'justify' to 'excuse' - neither of you had the guts to try to justify it)
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