“Over the past few decades, the number of imprisoned parents in the U.S. has skyrocketed. From 1991 to 2007, it jumped by more than 357,000. Today,[2018] more than half of the 2.2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails are parents of minor children.”

[themarshallproject.org]

I’m not saying it’s right in the case of illegal immigrants, but that 5460 children must be compared to the millions of children across the US who have been taken from their parents over the years, and before Trump was elected.

Those who enter the country illegally have, after all, broken the law. If laws are going to be enforced people have to be charged and jailed. The alternative is simply to open the borders to all comers. To establish that policy would require legislative action. I don’t see politicians moving in that direction.

A more humane method would be some kind of family holding camp, but that might grow to gargantuan size and could become very expensive. Is it fair to provide food and housing to illegal immigrants and not to citizens in need?

Some positive suggestions would be better than Trump bashing. Here’s a balanced article on the current state of affairs:

[usatoday.com]