I'm seeing a couple of bizarre arguments coming up online from right-wingers as they try to defend the indefensible.
The first is they wrongly understand the label that these people are "undocumented immigrants" and wrongly believe therefore we don't know anything about them because they lack documents. This makes the mistake of misunderstanding what "undocumented" means with regard to immigrants - it means that they lack the specific documents giving them permission to be in the US such as a valid and current visa or green card. It does not, at all, in any way, mean they lack documents in general. A person could turn up with their passport, driver's license, birth certificate, tax number, every bank statement they have received in their life, school records, police records, every document their government has ever issued them, and still be "undocumented" in the sense of not having a valid visa to enter the US. Indeed, anyone seeking asylum is going to do their best to turn up with as many documents as they possibly can in order to prove to the asylum judges in the US that they come from a country that the US acknowledges is a dangerous country, and from an area of that country that the US agrees is a dangerous area, and that they themselves have good reason to fear for their lives (e.g. police records documenting a history of spousal abuse against them, death threats received etc). They bring all those documents to prove to a US court that they need asylum. Their entry into the US might be illegal and therefore they are 'undocumented immigrants', but they don't lack documents proving who and what they are.
The second bizarre claim I'm seeing is the wild claim that the 'families' being separated aren't really families at all and that the people bringing the children across the border are not their mothers but rather child traffickers of some kind. I know of zero credible evidence to support this being the case in any instances. But, if there was concern about that, by all means do a DNA test to confirm parentage. They cost less than $200 (and must be cheaper if you're doing them in bulk), a tiny fraction of the cost of housing and processing these immigrants. Of course, it will be a total waste of money, since it seems pretty obvious that these parents are actually the parents of these children.
The first is they wrongly understand the label that these people are "undocumented immigrants" and wrongly believe therefore we don't know anything about them because they lack documents. This makes the mistake of misunderstanding what "undocumented" means with regard to immigrants - it means that they lack the specific documents giving them permission to be in the US such as a valid and current visa or green card. It does not, at all, in any way, mean they lack documents in general. A person could turn up with their passport, driver's license, birth certificate, tax number, every bank statement they have received in their life, school records, police records, every document their government has ever issued them, and still be "undocumented" in the sense of not having a valid visa to enter the US. Indeed, anyone seeking asylum is going to do their best to turn up with as many documents as they possibly can in order to prove to the asylum judges in the US that they come from a country that the US acknowledges is a dangerous country, and from an area of that country that the US agrees is a dangerous area, and that they themselves have good reason to fear for their lives (e.g. police records documenting a history of spousal abuse against them, death threats received etc). They bring all those documents to prove to a US court that they need asylum. Their entry into the US might be illegal and therefore they are 'undocumented immigrants', but they don't lack documents proving who and what they are.
The second bizarre claim I'm seeing is the wild claim that the 'families' being separated aren't really families at all and that the people bringing the children across the border are not their mothers but rather child traffickers of some kind. I know of zero credible evidence to support this being the case in any instances. But, if there was concern about that, by all means do a DNA test to confirm parentage. They cost less than $200 (and must be cheaper if you're doing them in bulk), a tiny fraction of the cost of housing and processing these immigrants. Of course, it will be a total waste of money, since it seems pretty obvious that these parents are actually the parents of these children.
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