[rhizome]

I don't understand the motivation for defending illegal immigration. Can someone ELI5?

Sure, I'll bite: it's a Class B misdemeanor pursued beyond reason. What is the motivation for kidnapping children from their parents and putting them all in concentration camps for the equivalent of fishing without a license?

[oh_sigh]

It would be better to ask 'You illegally cross the border into another country - should your children be taken away from you?'. There is no equivalence among misdemeanors. Illegal entry can lead to deportation - fishing without a license cannot.

[bluthru]

The reasoning is that we don't know if the children are being kidnapped or not (this was happening during the Obama years), but I don't know enough to know if it's being handled well.

[rhizome]

we don't know if the children are being kidnapped

It's a simple calculus: you get caught for fishing without a license, should your children be taken away from you?

[bluthru]

I find human trafficking to be a greater offense than fishing without a license, and that doesn't work as an analogy. Do you really want law enforcement looking the other way on this issue?

If you're smuggling children across the border should the children be in the same cell as the trafficker? Of course not. I'm all for making this process as fast as possible, though.