Not separating kids will lead to more children suffering

If all the parents a child has are arrested that child is not allowed to stay with them while they're in jail.

To sane people this makes sense since putting kids in a prison full of criminal adults is not something rational people think sounds good.

This separation occurs on a regular basis for the American children of American parents.

If illegals don't want it to happen to their children all they have to do is go to a border crossing and legally apply for asylum.  But it's clear that the parents in these cases aren't worried about being separated from their kids enough to avoid breaking the law.

What the leftists want is an open border where any family unit that tries to cross can't be detained.

But what would that lead to?  Imagine if you're MS-13 and you want to smuggle in a bunch of mid-20s or older thugs. Wouldn't it make sense to kidnap a kid from some house near the border in Mexico and claim that the kid was yours?  Because if the leftists have their way if you're with a kid, even if you can't show it's your kid, you have to be released immediately into the US.

If leftists get their way on this there will be a booming market in children for rent, lease, and sale near the border to ensure that anyone can waltz into America even if they get caught by the Border Patrol.

But then leftists won't care because they don't really care about the children; if they did they'd have been complaining about this policy when Obama was enforcing it.