It's simple once you get past of all the Democrat/media/liberals lies and misinformation. Obama ignored the law and made an exception for parents who broke it with their kids in tow. He didn't prosecute and detain them which allowed them to stay with their kids and be released into the country with a court date that they never showed up for. Hence catch and release.
If you or I skip a court date we get hit with failure to appear and have an arrest warrant issued. That's impossible to undertake when you're dealing with illegals who in a lot of cases the courts have no clue who they are or where they're at.
Trump on the other hand has realized this and has ended the lawlessness of catch and release and abuse of the immigration system. He specifically ran on ending this policy. Now he is enforcing federal immigration law with zero tolerance and without exception. Anyone and everyone (including parents with kids in tow) will be detained and prosecuted for breaking federal immigration law. There are no exceptions. The rule of law is blind. You break the law then you are held responsible for your actions and suffer the consequences.
And since he has taken this approach then by law parents who are detained awaiting prosecution must be separated from their kids. By law the kids are not allowed to be held in the detention centers with the parents.
The people you see on tv saying Trump could easily fix this are right but they're not telling you how. How comes at a cost. As is stands now the only way to solve this problem (other than congress changing the law allowing kids to stay with their parents who are detained awaiting prosecution) is for Trump to ignore the law by not prosecuting the parents and re-implement catch and release. That goes against everything he ran on regarding immigration and law and order.
Fantastic write-up. And all over 2,000 kids being separated from shitty parents, many that are criminals, for a brief period of time, in what appears to be pretty nice living quarters?
That's what the left is up in arms about? Because we temporarily separated children? You can find worse atrocities on your own block, and about 2,000 cases an hour in any big city. Why this? And why over people that aren't American?