(Daily Wire)—It wasn’t so long ago that the absolute worst thing the government could do to a child — according to pretty much every expert, NGO and media mouthpiece on the planet — was to put that child in a “cage.” That was, as you probably remember, a major line of attack during the first Trump administration. The consensus was that Donald Trump was so evil and so unhinged that, simply for his own personal amusement, he instructed immigration officials to incarcerate children in the worst conditions imaginable, like they were animals. Things were so bad that AOC wept outside of an empty parking lot near an immigrant detention facility. Lin Manuel Miranda sang a lullaby for the Mexican children. Oprah, Rihanna, John Legend, George Clooney — the luminaries of our time — came together to formally condemn the Trump administration.
In response, conservatives made the case that children weren’t actually being placed in “cages” of any kind. They also pointed out that the alleged “cages” predated the Trump administration. And that was all true.
The strongest argument, however, was actually pretty simple. Democrats couldn’t answer the following question: How exactly would a Democrat-run administration handle tens of thousands of children who are apprehended attempting to enter this country illegally at the border? If they weren’t going to deport the children, or use Obama’s “cages,” then what exactly would they do? What’s the alternative? We all knew that Biden couldn’t use the cages, because now Democrats are saying cages are evil. So what would Biden’s administration ultimately do?
As it turns out, a big part of their solution was to place unaccompanied minors inside the homes of people they called “sponsors.” So if a minor attempted to enter this country alone, or if their father was being prosecuted for a serious crime, the Biden administration would try to find someone for these minors to live with, inside of this country. They wouldn’t simply deport the children. They also wouldn’t put them in a secure government facility or a “cage.” Instead, they’d house them with an adult.
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