As a “policy position,” I’d go with the “zero-tolerance” doctrine combined with family separation is unwieldy, impractical, and bad policy besides. That it’s unenforceable is self-evident. That it’s needlesly cruel is broadly agreed upon. There’s no demonstrable upside and obvious downside. Obviously the powers that be ultimately agreed with that assessment. They’re now under court order to reunite these families, despite the fact that some parents have already been deported with their kids still in detention.
But, again, it’s somehow impressive for you to still be defending this massively draconian yet still half-baked ****show. Weird hill to die on, IMO, but ok.
I’d like to hear more about these “implementation flaws.” A couple thousand kids separated from their parents and put in baby-jail was a feature, not a bug—according to you, even: “it’s a tactic, folks.”
So was it a flaw or a tactic? Read the accounts of these kids and their parents and own it, really.
“Decades of psychological research show that children separated from their parents can suffer severe psychological distress, resulting in anxiety, loss of appetite, sleep disturbances, withdrawal, aggressive behavior and decline in educational achievement. The longer the parent and child are separated, the greater the child's symptoms of anxiety and depression become.“—American Psychological Association
Totally worth it, I guess.
Let’s file this with:
The Iraq War was good, actually, and there totally were so WMD.
Trump’s gonna be fine. How bad could it be?
Democracy is unsatisfying. Maybe try fascism?
The alt-right is the future of the Republican Party.
Trump would rightfully receive a Nobel Peace Prize if he nuked Pyongyang.
Most of those folks just like their Confederate monuments.
What hacking?
The Russia investigation died today.
Like, I appreciate your contrarianism, but I wonder sometimes if being a smart person who’s willing to advocate for criminally dumb stuff must not be a burden. I’ll take a bleeding heart over dead-eyed moral vacuity every day.