love to replace a human rights violation with a slightly different human rights violationhttps://twitter.com/AP/status/1009513577382928390 …
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in case it's not already in your feed — this is key https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html …pic.twitter.com/g2tdOvz5ID
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1. essentially indefinitely detain adults 2. kids can't be detained longer than 20 days 3. can't separate kids from adults can't have all three, so they're throwing out #2 instead of, you know, not aggressively pursuing the goal of jailing as many people as possible
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the "problem" they see is that they aren't doing enough to imprison more people even faster and in crueler conditions. the policy issue isn't actually very tricky. once you decide that locking people up is not an important national goal, this whole thing dissolves
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The other day I had a bajillion Trumpies in my mentions talking about how "illegals" shouldn't have a "pleasant" experience coming over. This is a national policy of sadism.
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Respectfully, I think you are not addressing the point the tweeter was making, which as I understand it refers to the long (and horrifying) infrastructure in place for smuggling people up to the US border, but something unrelated (whether immigrants do crime once in the US)
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it's a criticism of amnesty, my point is that mass detention is a far more unreasonable state of affairs than mass amnesty
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I also oppose mass detention, but I believe there is substance to the argument that de facto amnesty to anyone arriving with a kid and requesting asylum would have some harrowing consequences south of the border.
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Glad you solved that! And so fast.
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