What are your core values regarding immigration?
What kind of person does one have to be such that when faced with the state brutally ripping children away from their parents, one's response is either:
"Well, the parents broke the law."
or
"Yeah, well Obama started it."
I just can't even. If you can justify what is happening to those children, there's no brutality you can't justify, and in doing so, you have given up any claim to caring about America's values or the dignity of human beings.
It is you, not the immigrants or gang members, who are the animals.
In the case of those seeking asylum, they not only didn't break the law, they complied with it to the letter: to seek asylum, one must first be on US soil and submit to the first government official they encounter.
I live in Germany and we are dealing with our own immigration problems.
Merkel had a very optimistic outlook on the topic from the very beginning, saying "We can do this" with great enthusiasm. And I can agree with that. I am a helper at heart, so I have a hard time turning a blind eye to people in need.
That being said, Germany does have it's own problems and I also see how the Immigration Crisis isn't only a problem by itself but also spreads over to other already present problems, making them even worse.
Leaving that aside, taking in immigrants is no solution. It is treating the symptoms of the actual disease, namely the reasons for immigrants escaping their homelands in the first place.
Treating the sympoms is the key for immigration problem I believe. Triggers additional questions though such as ; couldn't it possible to find a way with Middle Eastern countries other than military actions? What is the reason to name those countries as evils but signing papers with North Korea? Is it only the case of nukes? Is the main cause toppling a dictator? A dictotor that worked well over the years causing no problem at all to the western world? How long do we have to be forced to choose between the human rights and trying to keep our own way life choices?
I think the real answer lies in a middle ground.
Treating symptoms is a good thing, but it should eventually lead to the solution against the core propblem. In a perfect world, at least. These topics are intricate, so finding this is easier said than done.