(Read! another! book! But also) I haven’t looked into the apparent ban on hugging, but: is the actual rule something like “no physical contact among detainees who aren’t family,” with “hugging” inferred? Because that would be a sensible ground rule.https://twitter.com/dakami/status/1008004238536916992 …
If our standard is that we oppose policies if they run the risk of upsetting kids, let’s you and me abolish ICE as soon as we’I’ve finished with the US public school system.
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Nobody is denying that the hugging story is enormously traumatic to the children involved, assuming it wasn’t completely fabricated. The question is what policy makes sense given the totality of the circumstances.
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How about we roll back to whatever we were doing last year. A conservative approach, if you will.
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Opposing policies that cause mental health damage to children is something I'm comfortable with.
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Good. I, too, favor a set of policies that so steeply disincentivize border crossing that no sane parent—and no prudent human smuggler—dares attempt it.
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It's a debate to have. Really, it is. But let's stop the kidnapping.
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