Time for put this issue into perspective:
First, asylum seekers are not “illegal immigrants,” no matter what FOX news or Jeff Sessions spins it. There is a legal and (formerly) orderly process by which foreign nationals may petition the US government for asylum, which is well established and codified into US law. What is illegal is the current policy of the DHS and DoJ which refuses to consider any asylum petition as legal, lumping them all into “illegal border crossings.”
Second, there is no legal, moral, or historical precedent for the forcible separation of children from their parents in the situations described above, and indeed there’s no precedence for that in any event, absent evidence that a child is being abused or neglected by his or her parents. Indeed, to forcibly separate parents from children in any other situation is abusive to those families, and to do it systematically, as the Trump administration is doing today to ~2,000 children and their parents, is nothing short of statee terrorism in the same category as Nazi treatment of Jews, Roma and other “undesireables” 7 decades ago.
Third, Donald Trump let it be known last Friday, and his wife reinforced the point yesterday, that the children whom his agencies have forcilbly separated from their parents would now be used as pawns in his ongoing attempt to build a border wall. Trump, in a Friday tweet, said
The Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration.
In other words, the Dems can get the families reunited if they go along with Trump’s “Wall” and draconian immigration agenda.
Shortly thereafter, Melania’s comm director told CNN
"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform"
IOW, “What a shame those families are torn apart! If only the Dems would go along with Donald on immigration...”
That is nothing less than hostage taking for the purposes of forcing the GOP immigration agenda through congress, folks.
Those kids are hostages, and Trump has demanded a ransom for their release: approve his wall and completely revamp immigration to his nativist specs.
It’s time to put this message out to the American people. We are being governed by a terrorist group who would stoop to hostage taking in order to get their agenda passed.
That is how far this country has descended into tyranny and despotism.