Obviously I’m not Roland but thought I would chime in since we seem to be playing the blame game and you seem to place the entire load at Trump’s doorstep, so lets look at who’s to blame.
Maybe the parents of these children who came to the US illegally, you might think they should share a portion of the blame?
Or how about congress, since 2001 they have been trying to pass acts like the Dreamer Act. 16 years! I believe it’s Republicans blocking acts like this, so blame the Republicans?
Trump has been a politician with influence for 6 months and the shit heel politicians have been playing hot potato with this issue for 16 years! and you seriously place all the blame at Trump’s door?
Because of the Republican’s intransigence on this issue Obama signed an executive order for DACA, which he had previously noted on many occasions he didn’t have the authority to do so, which is arguable, but I think right, DAPA was rescinded in the court of law, and DACA was facing a dozen lawsuits of its own, IMO they would have won and DACA would have ceased to exist within a couple of months.
This is before you even get into the issue of illegal immigrant voters. If you were a Democrat you would say there is no such thing, but why then fight so hard against voter ID or what Trump is doing looking into voter fraud, wouldn’t you as a Democrat want to assure your opposition illegal immigrants were not being used for political leverage? The Democrats are doing the opposite and fighting tooth and nail over every issue with regards illegal immigrants.
Trump punted this back to congress, where the law should be made, with a 6 month delay in putting it into action and a “lets look at this again” in 6 months approach. I think that’s right, I don’t think tying in voter ID laws or tighter immigration to such a package is unreasonable as you don’t want to revisit this issue every couple of decades.
Perhaps a bit less of the indignant outrage towards Trump and facing up to the fact, there is plenty of blame to go around in all this. The one thing I agree with is it’s not the kids fault, but there it is, at the end of the day congress and the President will need to come up with a solution.