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Putting aside for one tweet thread the cruelty of separating families, let's unpack what the Trump administration is talking about with these various explanations for considering the policy
First of all - the "crisis at the border" explanation merits a reminder that the current number of migrants arriving at the US-Mex border is the lowest in decades. In fact, we have roughly the same level of irregular migration that we had in the early 1970spic.twitter.com/3ArPL3HLch
The current border challenges arise from Central Americans make up a larger % of border arrivals (now more than 50%) and families making up a larger percent of these Central American migrantspic.twitter.com/sPGIqo1TFr
The challenges emerge since the Trump admin has continued the Obama admin practice of detaining asylum-seeking families upon arrival. These families are held in family detention centers while parents take credible fear interviews.
This process takes time & more arriving Central American families means strained detention facilities. Also, as more families arrive in Arizona / California, these systems are also strained. Over past few years, majority of migrant families have arrived in South Texas
To sum up - the "crisis at the border" is not about a border being overrun by irregular migrants. It is a "crisis" regarding how the government is going to process these large number of asylum-seeking Central American families
This takes us to the administration's next official reasons for considering the policy -> "protecting the American people, preventing the horrific actions of child smuggling, and stopping drug cartels from pouring into our communities."
1. Regarding safety, it's hard to understand how separating families makes Americans any safer & the Trump admin has not offered any clear explanations on how it would. The closest attempt was linking migrants to MS13, despite CBP data showing they make up <1% of border crossers
2. Re child smuggling, the Trump administration is referring to parents that pay smugglers to cross their children through Mexico to be reunited with them, escape violence in Central America, or earn money / receive an education in the United States
Im skeptical of smuggling being a major explanation because any real concern about child welfare would not include family separation as a policy proposal. Further, this is only particularly relevant for unaccompanied minors traveling through Mexico, not families.
3. Finally, regarding stopping "drug cartels" - there is no clear logic regarding how separating migrant families in US detention centers would have any affect on drug trafficking organizations or operations.
Overall, a policy that promotes family separation is not about improving border security, public security, child welfare (in fact, to the contrary), or drug trafficking. It is solely about deterring future CA families from coming to the United States to seek asylum
This is not to say that there are not challenges with the asylum system or even with fraudulent asylum claims. There are. But of all the policies that the Trump administration could choose to address these issue - family separation is among the cruelest.
Rounding out this thread with Trump confirming that despite the varied other explanations, his administration would separate asylum-seeking families again for the reason of pure deterrence, saying: “If they feel there will be separation, they don’t come”https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-separating-families-at-the-border-1539464658 …
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