> If a person takes his baby to rob a bank or commits any other arrestable offence and there is no other family available to take the child, then the child will

> If a person takes his baby to rob a bank or commits any other arrestable offence and there is no other family available to take the child, then the child will end up in government custody. "Government custody" in that case will most likely not involve being crammed into an overcrowded cage without sufficient food, blankets, or sanitation for weeks. When we get angry about border detention today, it's not because it exists, as it has for decades. It's because the way detainees are treated has changed suddenly and dramatically for the worse. And there's a huge difference between a robber bringing their baby along, and a parent struggling to get their children out of a broken nation where their health and survival are at risk. Nobody jumps the border for funsies. The law has no obligation to treat these people and bank-robbing thugs exactly the same.