I believe you're simplifying that. 1. Refugees with legitimate requests are coming from Central and South America. 2. Many of those countries in question

I believe you're simplifying that. 1. Refugees with legitimate requests are coming from Central and South America. 2. Many of those countries in question were result of US interference in their governments, leading to pro-US dictatorships 3. The refugees have come to the border crossings to petition for refugee status under international law 4. The US is a signatory for said international law 5. When refugees try to petition, CBP agents have actively blocked their entry to do the paperwork as required for claiming said status 6. Some have crossed illegally, and then unlike in prior administrations, criminal charges are levied 7. Families are intentionally being split up into different for-profit prisons 8. Children are split up, and there is no time limit for processing when they can get back with their parents 9. Deportations have been done where the parents are sent back, then the kids are. Nobody knows where they were sent This whole thing is a clusterfuck, based upon recent executive order and presidential blackmail of 'children for the wall' ( https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1007671131841671169 https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1007671131... ). I really don't know what else to say...