# Separating immigrants from their children is child abuse.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separating-immigrants-from-their-children-is-child-abuse/816206>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 16, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separating-immigrants-from-their-children-is-child-abuse/816206 "2018-06-16T16:45:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separating-immigrants-from-their-children-is-child-abuse/816206/75 "2018-06-17T12:42:25Z")

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> [@Question for Republicans: If Trump wins the Nomination...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-republicans-if-trump-wins-the-nomination/739332/10):
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> Donald Trump is not going to be any worse than Barack Obama or GWB.

> [@I predict that Donald Trump is going to win the election for POTUS this year.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-predict-that-donald-trump-is-going-to-win-the-election-for-potus-this-year/747810/9):
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> … People really do not want to vote for Hillary Clinton. Who wants to listen to her cackling and yelling at you for the next 8 years? That would just be torture. At least Donald Trump is just a clown.

@ OP — should we conclude your views have evolved?

> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#):
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> This is a dastardly deed that Trump and Sessions have planned. it seems to me that they are doing this in order to force the Democrats to vote for their stupid border wall which nobody wants. I also think that they are using this as an opportunity to indoctrinate the immigrants to our country instead of allowing them to just come here and roam free.
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> This isn’t something that our country should be involved in. How low will we go?

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