# The law DOES require them to separate children from their families

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**Created:** [June 18, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-law-does-require-them-to-separate-children-from-their-families/816339 "2018-06-18T21:15:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-law-does-require-them-to-separate-children-from-their-families/816339/107 "2018-06-20T02:39:35Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> You cannot take children away from their parents and lock them up and say, “It is not our fault.”

> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> [Hundreds of babies and toddlers held in “tender age shelters” in Texas.](http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5316764/toddler-immigrants-tender-age-shelters)Babies belong with their mothers. Politicians ignore this at their peril.

Their parents should not commit crimes in the presence of their children. That is their fault.

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