Lotus wrote:I haven't been following this US immigration story…what happened to the children of illegal immigrants before Trump was president?
What Trump did was introduce a policy designed to deter immigrants by taking their children off of them. He wanted to send the message that if you enter America then your children would be forfeit. Those children were then put into cages.
Since the story broke, photos have surfaced of kids being locked up under the Obama administration. Trump and his supporters are using these to point at Obama and say “LOOK, HE DID IT!!” whereas the photos from the Obama era are of kids who arrived unaccompanied. It’s still wrong to cage them, but it is not the same thing as literally ripping children out of their parents arms.
To make it all worse, the bureaucracy is so appalling that it is likely that many of the children will never be reunited with their parents ever again.
Trump has seen the bad publicity and so has issued an executive order to stop kids being taken away from their parents. He and his family are holding this up to show that Trump is righting wrongs. Except he is righting the wrong that he created. And kids will still be caged, it’s just now they will be caged with their family.