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"It's the law" never justified anything.
by danharaj 8y ago
"It's the law" never justified anything.
- oh_sigh 8y agoWhen did I try to argue that? My point was that 'separating families' is the norm for all people in the US when they go to jail, not just some extra punishment that is tacked on for people who illegally cross the border.
- crooked-v 8y ago> 'separating families' is the norm for all people in the US when they go to jail However, arresting and prosecuting every single person who crosses the border in a nominally illegal way[1] is not a norm, and neither is deporting parents while their children are still being held in the US. [1]: "Nominally" because many of the current cases involve asylum seekers who have been cut off from actually seeking asylum.