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Separated Families Questoin

Separated Families Question

  • Would you favor re-uniting families if they agreed to immediately leave

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • Would you only accept keeping families together and they stay, pending normal procedures

    Votes: 3 50.0%

  • Families can stay pending their outcomes but must remain separated

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Total voters
    6
Not enough information is given to make a poll choice. Did these families enter legally (i.e. at a port of entry and present a seemingly valid asylum claim)? Did these families enter (or remain) illegally and then decide to seek asylum only after being caught inside the US by border patrol or ICE?
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Not enough information is given to make a poll choice. Did these families enter legally (i.e. at a port of entry and present a seemingly valid asylum claim)? Did these families enter (or remain) illegally and then decide to seek asylum only after being caught inside the US by border patrol or ICE?
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I'd add a couple more questions:

1. Are these actually families? Or are they just kids with people who are not their parents?

2. If they are actually families, do the parents have criminal records?
 
In order to meet our asylum responsibilities, the families should be able to stay until a determination is made, but due to the high rate of asylum-applicants skipping out on their hearings, we must of necessity detain them.

We cannot, however, in good conscience detain children so they should be placed in foster care.

It's the only right thing to do.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Not enough information is given to make a poll choice. Did these families enter legally (i.e. at a port of entry and present a seemingly valid asylum claim)? Did these families enter (or remain) illegally and then decide to seek asylum only after being caught inside the US by border patrol or ICE?
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All of the news I know about is from families who have entered the country illegally. If they entered illegally then they have entered illegally. There are ways to seek asylum without entering the country illegally so that is no excuse.
 
HowardBThiname said:
In order to meet our asylum responsibilities, the families should be able to stay until a determination is made, but due to the high rate of asylum-applicants skipping out on their hearings, we must of necessity detain them.

We cannot, however, in good conscience detain children so they should be placed in foster care.

It's the only right thing to do.
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They shouldn't be entering the country illegally if they wish to seek asylum.
 
HowardBThiname said:
Therein lies the problem, for sure.
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We should change the law to read that anyone who seeks asylum in the US can't come here illegally and then expect to have the right to US legal options.
 
My take....If you wanted to enter a country with your family and were told that you could enter only if your family was separated...would you... one: continue to enter and leave your kids in the hands of the government or two: would you take your family and leave. Is that a tough decision? I, for one, don't think so.
 
Moderate Right said:
What is your druthers?
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At this point, this country would be better served if for every immigrant family that stayed here a trump supporter and his family were deported into the country not of their choice.

Fantasy? Sure, of course. But technically speaking, it would make the country a better place.
 
antiquity said:
My take....If you wanted to enter a country with your family and were told that you could enter only if your family was separated...would you... one: continue to enter and leave your kids in the hands of the government or two: would you take your family and leave. Is that a tough decision? I, for one, don't think so.
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I guess it depends on how much danger you believe your child to be in. If you feel the choice is to go back home with your child where you think they could likely starve or be killed or to leave your child in the hands of our government, I can see how that would be an agonizing choice. Of course that isn’t a scenario that most first-worlders can imagine due to our relatively stable lives.
 
Moderate Right said:
What is your druthers?
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I don't understand why all the sudden people are acting like they give a **** about separating families. During Barack Obama's administration 2 million people were prosecuted and incarcerated nobody said a word about them being separated from their children.

Illegal immigrants are simply being prosecuted for the crime of illegally immigrating it's a crime just like any other and where is someone who commits criminal trespass or burglary doesn't get to take their kids with them why should anyone else?
 
Cardinal said:
At this point, this country would be better served if for every immigrant family that stayed here a trump supporter and his family were deported into the country not of their choice.

Fantasy? Sure, of course. But technically speaking, it would make the country a better place.
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Very childish and stupid. Trump is our president and Trump support are not going anywhere.
The only ones that are going to be deported are the illegal aliens.
 
Common Sense 1 said:
Very childish and stupid. Trump is our president and Trump support are not going anywhere.
The only ones that are going to be deported are the illegal aliens.
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I didn't say it would happen; that's why I called it "fantasy." I only pointed out...accurately...that if a trump supporter and their family were deported to a country not of their choice for every immigrant family that was allowed in, this country would be measurably better.
 
If someone comes here illegally...and yes, not properly following asylum protocols by either 1) not going to an official point of entry into the US or 2) not having made the asylum request at the nearest safe country they came to qualifies...they absolutely should be incarcerated until they can be removed from the country. If someone came here seeking asylum in the proper fashion, they should have their presence monitored until a determination is made and if they vanish then they should forgo any other chance of ever being able to legally be in this country and removed immediately if found again.

In the second instance, I see no reason why the child should be separated at all. For the first instance, every effort should be made to keep the children as close to their parental unit, or with another family member, as possible. They shouldn't be treated any worse, or better, than instances where a child has their parents arrested normally in this country. However, the presence of a child should not be a "get out of jail free" card that allows them to break the immigration laws.
 
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