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>"The spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said the policy had “led to people caught entering the country irregularly being subjected to criminal prosecution and having their children – including extremely young children – taken away from them as a result”."

"Irregularly"...

The contortions which some go through in order to avoid using the word "illegal" are amusing.

By not describing the migrants as illegal, we minimize the damage done to rule of law by tolerating them. I recognize they are in plight, but they are fleeing nations where rule of law has broken down. We should do everything we can to avoid that path.