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.
No, we don’t owe citizenship and ongoing subsidies from taxpayers for about everything to anyone here illegally.
They need to go home.
And we need pols who will state — and then actually follow up on — such simple truths.