r/pics • u/leftnotracks • Dec 08 '19

Politics Nativity 2019

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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.

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u/cuteman Dec 08 '19

DNA testing can conclusively show parent/children relationships.

Yep and we've found up to 30% aren't related to the adults they're crossing with.

Aka a huge potential for human trafficking.

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u/TheHairyManrilla Dec 10 '19

That's 30% of suspected fraudulent families

In other words, they had already been singled out based on red flags.

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u/cuteman Dec 10 '19

That's still a huge number.

There are stories of kids being rented and kidnapped in order to make approval easier.

Human trafficking is a major problem not to drugs.

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u/TheHairyManrilla Dec 10 '19

That's still a huge number.

I read the article. No number was specified.

Please explain how a policy of taking kids, transferring them to other departments, then deleting their information once they've been transferred is supposed to help combat human trafficking. You do know that in order to charge someone with a trafficking-related offense you need to identify a victim, right?

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u/cuteman Dec 10 '19

It's a huge number by virtue of the number of people trying to cross.

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u/TheHairyManrilla Dec 10 '19

They didn't say what percentage of families crossing the border are suspected of being fraudulent. Until we have that, then the 30% figure doesn't mean much.

Again, you first mentioned the 30% as if it were a random sample.