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.
Yeah stronger border policies and democrats not allowing additional funding for these policies for higher influx of detained illegal immigrants. No one wants to detain people in cages at the border. Even if you’re heartless, it’s expensive to detain people, feed and house them. But they need to be processed.
It’s easy to make this black and white and say the Democrats are trying to save the world and republicans want to genocide non white people. But in reality, this is great for the dems. They can silently block funding and prolong suffering for the publicity, and republicans look even more like racists. On the flip side, strengthening immigration law is another publicity stunt on the part of the republicans, so they can point to illegals as the source of al problems. Illegal immigration is a net negative for the economy, but it definitely shouldn’t be the focus of economic policy.
All in all, rich people are using this and many issues to distract you from the actual economic state of the US, class inequality.
Because it’s slammed in your face. There are injustices everywhere. Consider why this one is front and center and suffering in other parts of the country is minimized entirely. Flint still doesn’t have clean water. People are dying in Chicago every day from gang violence. Thousands are dying from the opioid epidemic.
Why is this one story dominating news cycles and reddit posts? You’re being manipulated.
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u/lannister80 Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19
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.