Immigration policy can't be dictated by emotional blackmail

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Opinion | Immigration policy can't be dictated by emotional blackmail
Rachel Marsden, Columnist Published 12:00 p.m. ET June 22, 2018

PARIS -- U.S. President Donald Trump is under fire for treating U.S.-Mexico border-hoppers like lawbreakers, even though they're literally breaking the law. As with any crime, when parents are detained in prison, children don't go with them. The resulting optics are not pretty.

It would be much better if the border were simply sealed, would-be hoppers turned back along with their children, and requests for asylum submitted from outside the United States. Instead, Trump's critics are using the optics as leverage to attack Trump's attempt to secure the border.

Mexico currently has the same U.S. State Department travel advisory level as France, so sending someone back to Mexico isn't exactly inhumane. Yet we've gotten to the point where it's considered inhumane and unacceptable not to let everyone in, particularly if there are kids involved.

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