# Partying like it's 1859: let's break up families just like we did in the slave days!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partying-like-its-1859-lets-break-up-families-just-like-we-did-in-the-slave-days/814965>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partying-like-its-1859-lets-break-up-families-just-like-we-did-in-the-slave-days/814965 "2018-05-28T14:27:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partying-like-its-1859-lets-break-up-families-just-like-we-did-in-the-slave-days/814965/81 "2018-06-28T15:58:19Z")

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> [@Steve\_MB](#):
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> Truly, irony is dead:
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> [Cops Plead “Allow ICE Employees To Go Home To Their Families” After Protesters Blockade Prison In Portland](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/cops-plead-allow-ice-employees-go-home-families-protesters-blockade-prison-portland/)

Fuck those damn goons.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partying-like-its-1859-lets-break-up-families-just-like-we-did-in-the-slave-days/814965/82 "2018-06-28T15:59:21Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> You lose the argument when you begin rationalizing concentration camps for children. Stop it.

This. It is disgusting.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partying-like-its-1859-lets-break-up-families-just-like-we-did-in-the-slave-days/814965/83 "2018-06-28T16:00:25Z")

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> [@fervour](#):
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> Call your senators and representative. It’s all we have-----unless you have a better idea.

I send Twitters to them. If they log in, they see me.

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**Author:** ![Pippers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@Pippers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pippers)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/partying-like-its-1859-lets-break-up-families-just-like-we-did-in-the-slave-days/814965/84 "2018-06-29T01:30:20Z")

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> [@xcalibre](#):
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> I think it is disingenuous to write that it’s trumps policy to separate children from their families. Trumps policy change was to prosecute illegal crossings whereas the previous mode was to look the other way (some of the time). When you arrest adults they are put in adult jail, their kids aren’t allowed to come with, nor would you want them to be. This separation would happen whether these were immigrants or fifth generation citizens.
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> This might seem like nitpicking to some, but it is important. If you want to be taken seriously and have objective, logical discussion, don’t play word games to impart intentional emotional bias.

If I was a kind person I’d attach links to show you the error of your thinking (like this [Were More People Deported Under the Obama Administration Than Any Other? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-deported-more-people/) ) but I’m a feckless c\*nt so instead of wasting my time trying to educate someone that is “uneducatable”, I’ll just say STFU.

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