Indeed, it's just a short hop, skip and a jump from the government stripping undocumented "criminals" of their parental rights to the government meting out the same treatment to American citizens.
After all, in this era of overcriminalization in the American police state, we are all at risk.
To Jeff Sessions, the government's policy is cut and dried: "If people don't want to be separated from their children, they should not bring them with them," he warned. "If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring him across the border illegally."
It's easy to say, perhaps.
For those with a moral conscience and a less self-righteous attitude, it's harder to put such a dehumanizing policy into practice.
It's particularly hard to swallow the government's claim that it is doing all of this in the best interest of the migrant children. Remember, this is the same government that "lost" 1,475 migrant children within its care over a three-month period, in some cases handing them off to human traffickers.
The government's track record doesn't exactly inspire confidence in its ability to act in loco parentis for these children.
While illegal immigration is a problem that must be addressed, forcibly separating migrant children from their parents, transferring custody of them to the U.S. government, and caging them indefinitely in dog kennels cannot be the solution.
The law of reciprocity applies here.
I'm referring to the Golden Rule, which is found in nearly every world religion, including Judaism and Christianity. It means that we should treat others as we would have them treat us.
In other words, if you don't want your children to be forcibly separated from you, caged and lost, then don't allow these evils to be inflicted on anyone else, no matter how tempting the reason or how fervently you believe in the cause.
We are walking a dangerous path right now.
The slippery slope to the gas chambers starts when good people remain silent in the face of evil.
So when Sessions suggests that the government's child separation policy is just the government doing its job to fight illegal immigration, don't buy it.
This is not about illegal immigration.
It's about power and control.
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