I will address your points sequentially (since you wouldn't address my questio):
1) "Try all you want to change the subject. But what is happening now - and what was NOT happening before - is that children are being taken away, often screaming, from their parents at the border (or as our dumbfuck president says, the boarder)."
- It happens everytime a second offender (a felony, not a misdemeanor) then claims amnesty rather than choose the option to leave with their child. They are made aware of this clearly, and they still choose it. Because the amnesty evaluation takes longer than 21 days, the children are then placed per the Flores Act rather than be housed by ICE who is not equiped for longterm childcare. Do you think that no one has claimed asylum before Trump? In fact, i linked one of your former posts below where you proclaim that more deportations happened under Obama than Bush. Necessarily, the number of asylum seekers then were also higher. No complaints from you back then. Why had your media not mentioned it?
2) "This is a change in policy"
- categorically false. The law existed and was enforced under 3 prior presidents for good reason. Without it, there is a wide loophole for anyone to skirt the normal immigration process and gain access to our country as long as they have a child in their arms. This would lead to unfettered immigration, security risks, and a child slave market which would use the children. At present, children are being handled humanely and no cages are being used (though those guys and their bosses have never been investigated because you don't share the same outrage for Obama era crimes).
- you now want Trump to illegally ignore the law like Obama has done on many occasions, but YOU want to be in charge of which laws he ignores.
3) "Our government is using the pain of children to deter immigration. Splitting up families is not used to deter any other crime, ever - and illegally crossing the border is a MISDEMEANOR. And seeking asylum is NOT A CRIME AT ALL."
-False. Dems are upset that their voter infusion has slowed, and they wish to blame it on this. They know that good parents who love their children won't choose to try seek asylum, but they want those votes. The intent of the law is to provide good care to children in a long term setting while having an enforceable immigration process. You wrap yourself in "the children", but you don't know anything about the situations being dealt with, and I'm sorry, but you didn't demonstrate the same degree of concern when it involved caged children a few weeks ago when you discovered it happened under Obama - I gave you a few chances, but you weren't outraged then).
- False, being caught for re-entry a second time is a felony. Even then they are processed within a couple of days and released with their children unless they CHOOSE to have their children sent away why thay claim asylum in which case, they can be re-united with them if they are successful.
3) "In other words, this has NOTHING to do with crime. These people are not MS-13 members."
- yes, it has to do with a felony on re-entry attempt as mentioned.
- How do you know that these won't be MS-13 members if this law is changed? many will since it will become widely abused by criminals, and children will suffer incredible as they become "tools" for the criminals
4) "Trump thinks that this - like all immigration hardline policies - will help him with his base. He might be right...because his base has lost their moral compass".
- Reading minds and motives of individuals is best left to carnival employees.
- I do not consider any group that supports separating children from their families and from life itself (abortion on demand) to be in a postion to determine anyone else's moral
compass.
5) "If you agree with him, then you have lost yours, too."
-You and I don't make that call. Offer a specific alternative that protects against the above metnioned concerns, and I am all ears.