Are you having a stroke?
They're overcrowded because of a broken immigration system and because of Trump administration policies. You also seem to have forgotten about the bipartisan immigration reform bill that was killed by the Republicans during Obama's presidency because, well, he was Obama. An inability to reform immigration now is the fault of Trump and the Republicans, and anything other than border security is not one of their priorities.
Trump killed immigration reform. He deserves no credit.
We wouldn't be talking about the deplorable conditions at the border if not for Trump's deplorable conditions at the border.
Trump's "strong push" for immigration reform is predominantly a.) A border wall, and b.) Less legal immigration.
Being anti-immigrant is what helped him win the election. Things that also helped him win the election include (but aren't limited to):
- A broken Electoral College system
- Russian interference
Trump has practically blocked asylum seeking at the port of entries arbitrarily, not because there was any reason to. Doing this is also, arguably, illegal.
And how did that work out?
In what world is Social Security running out of money, let alone rapidly? That's objectively false, but I don't expect you to concede anything.
Many people use it for the former, not the latter.
That's not the purpose of the child separation policy. They've already admitted the purpose of it and the harm it caused was to deter illegal immigration. There is nothing about the Trump family separation policy that "saves lives" or does any good.
Not all crimes are equal. US families don't get separated with many/most crimes. As I said earlier:
- Aside from crossing the border illegal, the vast majority aren't criminals. We don't separate children from parents for traffic tickets, for example.
- Many of the asylum seekers are legal asylum seekers.
- The Trump administration had no plan to reunite the families.
- The children are being held in deplorable conditions.
- Children are dying.
- The illegal crossings are often happening because asylum seekers have no way to seek asylum at the ports of entry.
We aren't talking about jail or crimes big enough to cause one to go to jail. We are talking about illegal border crossings, detainment, and processing. And, again, for many asylum seekers, they are legal asylum seekers.
Family separation is deplorable, and it's psychological trauma. It should only be reserved in dire circumstances, and illegal border crossings isn't one of those circumstances. I don't know why you or anyone else are defending this.
- Many of the asylum seekers are legal asylum seekers.
- Aside from the illegal border crossing itself, the vast majority of these people are not criminals.
- The detainment conditions are deplorable.
- Child-separation is deplorable.
- Children are dying.
- There was no plan to reunite the families.
- Illegal crossings are often happening because the Trump administration has illegally blocked seeking asylum at ports of entry.
Understandably, I'm getting tired of repeating myself. I'm probably going to limit my posts in this thread at some point in the near future.