...Many of the kids aren't related to the adults that bring them across the border, they're rented and recycled. .
How much is "many", as a percentage?
For example...
Of all children intercepted each month...
On the average (over a 12- or 24-month span or some-such )...
1. what percentage are actually accompanied by parent(s)?
2. what percentage are being falsely claimed to be accompanied by a parent?
3. of those falling under (1), what percentage are separated from their legitimate parent(s)?
a. what percentage of (3) were separated to protect the child from its parent(s)?
b. what percentage of (3) were separated for any other reason?
It is No. (3)(b) that I - and a vast number of fellow Americans - am most concerned about.
I know you don't have those answers at your fingertips.
Trouble is, neither does Donald and his Minions.
Hell, they can't even keep a semi-accurate count or tell us where some of the kids are being warehoused.
And they started this out - and, from what I read, continue - without even a simplistic semi-intelligent plan for Reunion.
Those are all damned-terrible optics and you know that just as well as I do.
And, it feeds the LibTard agenda on this subject; needlessly.
But - on reflection - this Administration does damned-near everything half-assed and without thinking it through in advance.
Perhaps, someday, History will call him The Knee-Jerk President.
Several problems with your reply here:
First off, when kids come here and the adults are detained or arrested, the government looks for places to put them. Like with American prisoners, they look for family members that are living here. If they can't find family members, they look for people from the country of origin for these kids to stay with. When our authorities try to contact them for an update, many of them won't answer the phone or door because they too are illegals themselves.
Secondly, the President of the United States takes an oath of office. In that oath he swears to up hold the constitution and laws of our country. When Trump adheres to a judicial decision made long before he entered the White House, he has no choice but to honor that decision; he swore he would.
Third, this has been going on long before Trump came along. It's like those pictures somebody tried to pass around saying the cages those children were living in were Trump cages. Somebody wisely pointed out that those pictures were taken during the Obama administration.