I don't know enough about the other three, but there are many people who disagree with you on the child separation.
We have 10 million illegal immigrants in the US. Previous administrations have been soft on border enforcement, which led to that number constantly increasing, putting regional pressure on wages, lower class jobs, and regional cultural identity.
Trump increased enforcement of existing immigration laws. He wasn't going to put the kids in detainment centers with their parents. Children don't belong in prisons with adults, there would be incredible abuses that occur. Hence separation pending litigation and/or deportation.
"We have 10 million illegal immigrants in the US. Previous administrations have been soft on border enforcement, which led to that number constantly increasing, putting regional pressure on wages, lower class jobs, and regional cultural identity."
There are lots of ways to solve these problems which don't rely on separating children from families. Interesting you feel the government should act in order to ensure stability of regional cultural identity, and that damaging families of these migrants seem to be a reasonable answer to do so.
Also, no law forced this policy of child separation. They could have created family focused detention facilities. They could have done a lot of things. They did child separation to convince people to not come to this country.
It sounds like the cure was worse than the disease. Solve the immigration problem by taking it out on the children. When this was suggested did anybody step up and say this seemed like a bad idea?
We have 10 million illegal immigrants in the US. Previous administrations have been soft on border enforcement, which led to that number constantly increasing, putting regional pressure on wages, lower class jobs, and regional cultural identity.
Trump increased enforcement of existing immigration laws. He wasn't going to put the kids in detainment centers with their parents. Children don't belong in prisons with adults, there would be incredible abuses that occur. Hence separation pending litigation and/or deportation.