Just so that my point is clear: the people who are following legal procedures in their attempts to gain asylum, I don't particularly have an issue with. They deserve their day in court, as it were. But let's not pretend that all of the detainees are following that path. There's good and bad within every grouping of humans. So some are attempting to play the system or have entered illegally. For those people and their families, the bad situation that they are in has been created by their own actions. So it is what it is. And so, yes, I do believe that
(the poster known this week as ) sean miguel asked a legitimate question.
As for what happens to the minor children of people
convicted of crimes (and sometimes just charged), yes, indeed they are placed in foster care or in the care of qualified family members by the court system. Social workers will and do remove those children from the home, depending on who is still in the home. If both parents are going away, or if one is going away and the other is strung out on drugs or whatever, then the kids are taken away. Happens every day. A family I'm acquainted with is keeping two boys in foster care, where dad is locked up and mom is a meth head. That kept the boys out of a state foster care institution.
I'm actually in favor of immigration reform, because it's abundantly clear that the system that we have now is not just bent, it is broken. But no how, no way do I agree with those who are in favor of open borders or believing every sad tale that gets told.