What we did is remove children with their mothers who requested it - that's a parental decision.

No, Dope. That is a lie. They did NOT give her a choice. Her attorney claims that ICE did not allow her to communicate with the child's father and make a joint parental decision about where the child should be. They actively stopped that conversation when it began to happen. The attorney also claims that ICE asked her to write the letter under the threat of separating the mother from the child with no indication of what would happen to the child - no guarantee that the child would be delivered to the father. Further, they actively kept the mother from getting legal counsel - which loops back to the due process issues the Trump administration has been blatantly violating.

I'll tell you what - if we DIDN'T do it, the story today would be, 'Trump administration's separating families again!

More lies. They DID separate families. They separated the child from her father and did not allow the father to choose to retain custody of the child in the US.

I don't know why you continue to defend the indefensible. This is why you continually get accused of being in a cult. You can't acknowledge information that is contrary to your preferred ideas.

I stand by my statement. Cruelty is the point. I can think of nothing more cruel than making a mother choose to be separated from her child with no idea what is going to happen to the child.

--Peter