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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
I could see how this would make finding out the truth of whether or not the adults have enslaved the children much harder. But really, I have no idea what the actual process at the border is, so I can't say what goes on.
However, if I'm in charge of finding out if the kids are being raped and trafficked, you can bet your sweet ass I will separate them from the possible rapists.
So what if, upon capture of an adult-child combination of people, you separate them briefly and ask the children 'are you being raped and trafficked, or mistreated in any way by the people who brought you here?' and if they say 'yes', then you go on with the separation. And if they say 'no, those are my parents', you say 'are you sure? we'll protect you.' , and the kid still insists 'those are my parents' (or aunt or uncle or whatever), then you put them back together. The whole thing could be done in 15 minutes, and would almost certainly reduce separations to < 1%.
It's another question what you then do with the separated children, but the above seems a pretty sensible first step to me.
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Perhaps the problem is that we even allow for this situation to exist in the first place. Perhaps the most humanitarian thing we can do is make border security so robust that there's nobody to detain because nobody is illegally entering US jurisdiction in the first place.
Perhaps, but that would also be the responsibility of the federal government.
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