Let the little kids stay and we are cooked.
I don’t care about the visuals. Our side never makes its case to the people. And we are never going to win over more than roughly half the voters anyway. The opposition is going to accuse us of terrible things no matter what we do.
Our side, like you, too often just assumes that the backlash of doing what’s right would kill our cause—and so we need to just roll over.
Again and again and again.
I don’t totally disagree with you - we can’t always be afraid of the optics and the backlash from doing the right thing.
But it’s a matter of degree. This business of deporting the little kids is not such a clear moral issue. Yes, they should never have been allowed in, but they WERE let in - by us - by our government, which we (unfortunately) elected. So we bear responsibility for the mess we’re in.
I think if Trump stops the inflow, deports the ones with a criminal record and prevents illegals from receiving welfare, free education, free healthcare and entering the workforce, that’s far more than anyone else has done. Hopefully, these families will eventually “self deport” if there is nothing here for them.
Republicans simply can’t start dragging kids out of their homes. This goes beyond bad optics - it would go down in history along side Hitler’s final solution.