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by SalmoShalazar 2157 days ago
Not to mention the family separation/children in cages along the Southern border, but I guess everyone got distracted and forgot about this.
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This includes migrants who claim to be children, but who are actually 18 or older, as well as adults who falsely claim to be parents of minors they're traveling with, according to Brian Hastings, chief of law enforcement operations for Customs and Border Protection.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711850056/fake-documents-a-gr...

Yes? So? That doesn't mean it does not also includes actual children, and people who are actual parents of minors they're traveling with.
If CBP suspects they aren't really your kids you get separated. If they don't, you stay together.

That's the point.