“They want asylum? Come in through legal entry points.”
Aren’t they doing exactly that?
Entering the U.S. at an official border crossing, checking in with U.S. immigration, and applying for asylum?
no- that would be a LEGAL entry
These are ILLEGAL entrants and so jailed, kids placed in care.
Wait are you actually saying that you thought they were taking kids away from people who came here legally and applied for asylum?
Geebus... are you new here?
Ooops... I guess you are new here (Sept 2017)
The liberal media is LYING TO YOU. You will learn that if you spend any time here.
The kids being ‘separated’ are from people who crossed ILLEGALLY and were thrown in jail. You can’t put kids in jail with the parents, so they go into a care facility.
They are also finding that a large percentage are not even their real children.
Also, 10,000 of the 12,000 currently in govt care CAME WITHOUT PARENTS.
The people who enter at a checkpoint and request asylum are not arrested. the families are intact in a residential center run by HHS. It is the people who cross illegally and arrested who are separated from the children because the children cannot be held in a jail.