‘We Need to Take Away Children,’ No Matter How Young

[Dill]

(10-13-2020, 03:15 PM)PhilHos Wrote: This is true. But the blame lies with their PARENTS.


So, if Trump and Congress made it a felony to illegally enter this country THEN it would be okay to separate children from their parents?

The fact of the matter is that parents are committing crimes with their kids and while it sucks, the parents need to face justice for their crimes. And if that means separating them from their children, then so be it. But the fault still lies with the parents.

Yow! 

You can punish these impoverished parents for entering illegally and seeking asylum or whatever "crime" by fining or detaining them without taking their kids. 

Or you can fine and detain them AND take their kids as an extra disincentive. 

And if you are unable to reunite many parents and children after separation, because you have not taken the trouble to keep track of who belongs to whom, it is still ultimately the parent's fault that they are separated, if I follow your argument.

Assuming that a cruel and unusual punishment is the responsibility of "criminal" parents who incur it, and not those who made  that cruel and unusual punishment law and enforce it, seems to deny the ethical foundation of our liberal democracy.