Trump will eventually leave office. Trump is trying to solve the illegal immigration issue. Is there a better way? What is it?
hah, really? The better way is what were were doing for the past several years before Sessions announced that they were going to separate families as a ‘deterrent’ (which past experience shows probably isn’t effective). Basically, use discretion and try not to separate families.
Look, laws exist and need to be followed, but there is ALWAYS discretion involved in how we enforce laws. and choosing to be a maximum power asshole about prosecution to the fullest extent of the law (And then throwing up your hands and saying ‘my hands are tied!’) isn’t the way to do anything.
But the law does prevent keeping families together for a long period of time where adults are prosecuted. There is usually some discretion, and now Trump (the hateful tyrant) is exercising it to keep families together for some amount of time.
I think Sessions comments were dumb and as noted the law limits keeping families together no matter what he thinks of the deterrent effect.
It seems shortsighted to dwell so much on whether families are kept together than on what will we do to address illegal immigration.