Thank you, laskern, for showing the real Torah midah shwoing we’re rachamim bnei rachamim.
Yes, we need border laws, but if you have been paying attention to the President’s tweets and announcements over the last few months, he ordered this policy because he hoped it would discourage people by separating them from their children, and because it would force Congress to pass an immigration law that he would only sign if it funded his wall. It’s deliberate cruelty in the service of a political aim. He wants his border wall and will do anything to get it.
The world is looking at us with disgust, because harming children is the ultimate taboo. We will no longer be able to complain about human rights violations elsewhere, or be believed if we do. And if you’re paying attention, that means that the US, the greatest defender of Israel against the BDS people, is fast losing its ability to hold them off. It isn’t just crying toddlers who are at stake, it’s also Ariel and Ma’alei Adumim.
BTW RBS: immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than those born here. Most of them work, and have payroll taxes deducted from their pay, so they actually contribute. Their children, American and foreign-born, go to school, learn English, and work at becoming proper Americans. And there are plenty of industries in the agricultural and fishing sectors who are having trouble finding workers, since Americans won’t take the physically difficult jobs they used to do. Don’t believe everything you hear on talk radio/television. Try reading a newspaper.