[frittig]

Do you think that there is a point in having boarders between countries? If so how should they be enforced? If a 17 year "child" crosses the boarder should they be detained (ie. kept in prison until deportation) or should they be allowed to walk free in the US. If a child and parent both crossed the border should only the parents be detained leaving the child to fend for itself in America? Should they be detained in the same cell? ie keep children detained with adult.

I agree that keeping children in cages is not good, but there are solutions. If ice had a bigger budget maybe it could have more beds, larger cells, better food. I don't see how removing enforcement is a solution.

[remarkEon]

Using children as a way to take advantage of existing policy is a well known strategy employed by the cartels to get across the border, which is what initially precipitated the separation policy under the Obama Administration. While, sure, ICE having more funding would be good it's still just treating a symptom of a much larger problem (growing strength of Cartel activity and human trafficking).

[iamaelephant]

> I agree that keeping children in cages is not good, but

Come on, man.

[repolfx]

Would you be much happier if it was a normal room, but locked from the outside?

I never saw anyone talking about "cages" until about a year or so ago. It seems the alternative of better accommodation isn't what people are demanding here, but rather, giving children a waiver to break any and all laws. If you want to see children being forced or recruited into cartels in record numbers, making them immune from any kind of border enforcement is a surefire way to do it!

[frittig]

I'm waiting for you to write what the alternative is? Make a law stating that if you cross the boarder illegally, or for that matter, commit any crime, but are a child, then you do not get detained?

[t-writescode]

What do you think ICE is doing with over $700 per person per night that they would do better with even more money?

[sneak]

Free movement of peaceful people is a basic human right; borders are based on entirely arbitrary violence, and are utterly ridiculous and plainly contrary to decent morals and good sense.

[remarkEon]

Guess I don’t have decent morals and good sense, because open borders sounds like a really bad idea and is something that’s only ever advocated for by an entrenched elite that’s completely insulated from any potential problems that policy will cause.