“If your Mom & Dad rob a bank and are caught, the children are separated from the criminal parents. The parents broke the law crossing the border illegally...they are separated. Should we throw the kids in jail too?”
This is a good analogy. This so-called issue is not worthy of much defense ... because this situation has always happened in societies throughout the world. When parents commit crimes their children have to be separated from their parents unless you want to put the children in jail.
If Mrs DoodleBob and I were scofflaws and were pondering illegally entering Lichtenstein and thought the likelihood of us being separated from the little DoodleBobs was high, I think we'd stay at home.
To be fair, this threat of separation was small under the Obama regime. And, to be sure, a parent may face a Hobson's choice in staying in, say, North Korea vs risking separation. I get it.
But Mexico isn't NK - it's not a sh**hole, remember? And Trump has been around for about 18 months. So...The question not being asked is: what does it say about the parents, that they're willing to risk separation from their flesh and blood, in breaking the law?
Your explanation makes perfect sense. It is the reality of the situation. What makes me angry is that with this forged in steel understanding, there are those who use red herring arguments to muddle the logic. This is what you get when the Democrat party wants to import voters. They are doubled down on this battle.