[Deaf Smith]

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?

[Captain Peter Blood]

That is not the question I am asking.

[plain talk]

“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.

[Dryman]

Isn’t subjecting a child to the commission of a felony child endangerment ?