There are pro-lifers who think that basically nothing outweighs the 'murder of unborn children' and can't fathom voting for a Democrat. You might have more in common with them than you think.
Strangely enough, pro-lifers generally oppose those kinds of things.
Is it not possible that in the context of immigration there can also be situations where it needs to happen? (e.g. communal housing could put children in the vicinity of harmful people, or fake families with human traffickers posing as parents)
This was not actually a policy. This was a side effect of a different policy. The policy was zero tolerance on criminal immigration law. That means, if an adult crosses the border illegally, they committed a crime and must be arrested for said crime. That part isn’t actually new, Trump just directed them to enforce the law. That’s where the issue comes in. When an adult male goes to jail, such as if I were to get a DUI with my kid in the car, I’m not allowed to take a kid in with me to jail. It doesn’t matter if they’ll be left alone with no one to care for them. No matter what, arrestees can not bring their kids to jail, ever.
So in this situation, the parent is arrested and charged with a crime, and the kids are held until a guardian can be located. And guess what? Many from Mexico or El Salvador actually don’t want to come up to the US and get their kids, if such a person even exists. The Obama admin built these “cages” for that reason. But, they didn’t enforce the law as much, so they were not used so often. They did build them and they did put kids in them though.
the heads of the three major immigration agencies wrote to their boss, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, to present her with three options for how to step up immigration enforcement at the border. They recommended “Option 3” — prosecuting every adult who crossed the border illegally, including those who came with their children — because it would “have the greatest impact on current flows.”[2]
> No matter what, arrestees can not bring their kids to jail, ever.
And yet through some miracle they reversed this policy and issued a new executive order reversing the "zero-tolerance policy" that says:
"The President’s executive order issued on June 20, 2018, directed, among other things, that the Secretary of Homeland Security maintain custody of alien families during any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their family members, to the extent possible. This order stated that the policy of the administration is to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate."[1]
This is a return to how it used to be run - families were detained together.
[1] https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/696788.pdf
[2] https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/family-separation-border...
Well, everyone who supports Trump decided that those policies are better than the alternative.
What could be worse than children in camps is beyond me though ...
Lots of them care more about abortion and religion that you presumably do, and that's what makes Biden worse for them - the fear that they'll lose their ability to practice their faith and have it be part of their lives.
I don't get it either, but you're essentially doing the same thing to them that they do when they claim that Biden will introduce a Green New Deal, or make abortions mandatory or something (I should watch more Fox, clearly, so I'd have better examples here).
At the same time, no, I'm not essentially doing the same thing. Let's face the facts - the current conservative media environment (Fox, etc) is deeply distorted.
I'm not making claims based on bad information, or making untrue claims.
Let's also bear in mind that, as much as networks like Fox distort and manipulate the truth, I'd bet plenty of people in these distorted media environments have a degree of understanding that what the Trump administration has done is wrong.
But people (all people) hate the discomfort of cognitive dissonance and look for any reason to avoid it.
To circle back to the main point, people making false claims (even if they are unaware of the falsehoods their claims are based on) is not the same thing as someone else pointing out the falsehood itself.