But the practice of separating children and parents who are asylum seekers is very inhumane. Imagine the trauma to the kids.
This is misconstruing what it happening. Those seeking asylum are not separated provided that they make a claim for asylum on entry. They are then granted a hearing date on the claim of asylum and given temporary entry. If they then skip the hearing date, they are considered in the U.S. illegally and that they may not have a valid asylum claim (claim being used for pretense the enter and get lost ‘in the crowd’). Often these people are given several additional dates to appear for the asylum hearing and many skip those as well. Often this happens for many years.
Those crossing the border illegally, ie using coyotes and are then found inside the country illegally, are often separated from their children. Unlike those who have made a claim for asylum on entry, they have not expressed a claim for asylum (until caught). As with U.S. citizens who have to go to jail for a criminal act, they will be separated from the children with the children either living with relatives or are temporarily fostered. Having children does not grant you immunity from consequences for your actions. An additional fact; if a parent has shown risky and irresponsible behavior that repeatedly lands them in jail or puts their children at risk, their children can actually be taken from them by C.P.S. and they can permanently loose custody.
We are being played by most of the Main Stream Media as well as those who try to make us feel bad about the separation; “Feel for the Children”. Well I feel for the children, but not the parents. They uprooted their children and put them at risk to cross the border illegally. Women (adult and sometimes minors) are sometimes sexually assaulted in the process – often by the coyotes as a form of payment to the coyotes. I can understand to some extent why people try to enter illegally. They are told by those in the business of transporting migrants that money literally drops from the sky into their laps and they don’t have to work very hard to make a living (the proverbial streets paved with gold story). When the migrants get here, they discover it is much different. They don’t have the needed language skills, have minimal education in a job environment that is getting increasingly technical.
