And above we see sophistry and denial in action.
The laws do not require children to be stripped from their parents, because they do not require immigrants to be jailed before they have their day in court. Even if you wanted to detain undocumented immigrants, it's possible to house them without breaking up the families. The stripping of children from their parents is a choice, as Trump and Sessions made clear when it started, that has been made by the administration for the express purpose of trying to scare people into not coming to the US. It is also a form of punishment without conviction (which, unfortunately, is more and more accepted in the US - another example would be asset forfeiture, which can be done by LEOs without ever charging you with a crime, and which is permanent regardless of whether you ever get charged), as well as being vile, immoral, and a crime against humanity. The administration is planning on building more cages for the children it hasn't already handed over to child traffickers; it could just as easily build facilities for entire families, but CHOOSES not to. And people like Doc will accept it because they're too caught up in 'conservatives are good, liberals are bad' to see evil when it's staring them in the face. Hell, as you see in Docs post, he'll stand there approvingly and watch as the evil is performed in front of him.
He also conveniently forgot to mention that the reason no DACA change was made was because Trump straight-up promised to veto the compromise bill that Democrats and Republicans managed to put together, expressly because it wasn't punitive enough to those people brought here as children. He made it extremely clear that his idea of 'compromise' was going to be 'do precisely what I told you to do'.
Doc said it himself - American conservatives have come to hate and despise brown children simply because their parents brought them here. Funny how 'no tolerance' doesn't extend to white people, such as, say, a realtor-turned-politician's wife who spent years living and working in the US without a visa.
This sad situation is ENTIRELY on the shoulders of Trump and the GOP politicians who have given up even the pretense of acting for any purpose other than the furthering of their own wealth and power and that of the people who own them. And the rank-and-file conservative has become so lost to all human decency that they stand there cheering as the administration shows time and again the kind of moral standards that actively begs for negative comparisons to the rise of one of the most evil regimes we've seen in the industrialized world.
To quote today's announcement by Steve Schmidt, lifelong Republican and once senior advisor to John McCain, one-time Presidential nominee for the Republican party:
29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.
It is corrupt, indecent and immoral. With the exception of a few Governors like Baker, Hogan and Kasich it is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party's greatest leaders. This child separation policy is connected to the worst abuses of humanity in our history. It is connected by the same evil that separated families during slavery and dislocated tribes and broke up Native American families. It is immoral and must be repudiated. Our country is in trouble. Our politics are badly broken.
The first step to a season of renewal in our land is the absolute and utter repudiation of Trump and his vile enablers in the 2018 election by electing Democratic majorities. I do not say this as an advocate of a progressive agenda. I say it as someone who retains belief in DEMOCRACY and decency.
On Ronald Reagan's grave are these words. " I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life." He would be ashamed of McConnell and Ryan and all the rest while this corrupt government establishes internment camps for babies. Everyone of these complicit leaders will carry this shame through history. There legacies will be ones of well earned ignominy. They have disgraced their country and brought dishonor to the Party of Lincoln.
I have spent much of my life working in GOP politics. I have always believed that both parties were two of the most important institutions to the advancement of human freedom and dignity in the history of the world. Today the GOP has become a danger to our democracy and values.
This Independent voter will be aligned with the only party left in America that stands for what is right and decent and remains fidelitous to our Republic, objective truth, the rule of law and our Allies. That party is the Democratic Party.
He's far from the only person to flee the GOP as it becomes a greater and greater threat to human rights as well as Democracy itself. It's just sad to see so many so-called 'Americans' cheering on an organization that is blatantly goose-stepping the US to the fascist future they apparently hold so dear.