美國人道的底線麵臨崩潰：法律可以各有定義，但人倫常綱是普遍的人道底線

法律可以各有定義，但人道的底線是人倫常綱。

美國南部邊境，截止五月底，已有2000兒童，有些不到二歲，並強製與父母隔離，被收容在臨時設立的營地。這些孩子舉目無親，與父母分離，可以想象他們的精神創傷。

無論你是川粉還是川黑，無論你對非法移民的反對的強弱，在這個人倫常綱上，我相信我們有共同的底線。

GOP的議員Ben Sasse也是強烈反對非法移民，但是把孩子和父母從邊境強製分離，他還是強烈反對。他的觀點見下。

今天這人道的底線的崩潰，以為這更可怕的非人道法令的大行其徑。這發生在他們身上，也可能發生在你我身上。也許，你今天還覺得這不可能，但曆史告訴我們這種不可能曾經一次次地發生。

1) Family separation is wicked. It is harmful to kids and absolutely should NOT be the default U.S. policy. Americans are better than this.

2) This bad new policy is a reaction against a bad old policy. The old policy was “catch-and-release.” Under catch-and-release, if someone made it to the border and claimed asylum (whether true or not, and most of the time it wasn’t true), they were released into the U.S. until a future hearing date. Many folks obviously don’t show up at these hearings, so this became a new pathway into the U.S.

3) Catch-and-release – combined with inefficient deportation and other ineffective policies – created a magnet whereby lots of people came to the border who were not actually asylum-seekers. This magnet not only attracted illegal immigrants generally, but also produced an uptick in human trafficking across our border. (We now also have some limited evidence of jihadi recruiters spreading word about how to exploit the southwestern border.)

4) Human trafficking organizations are not just evil; they’re also often smart. Many quickly learned the “magic words” they needed to say under catch-and-release to guarantee admission into the U.S. Because of this, some of the folks showing up at the border claiming to be families are not actually families. Some are a trafficker with one or more trafficked children. Sometimes border agents can identify this, but many times they aren’t sure.

5) Any policy that incentivizes illegal immigration is terrible governance. But even more troubling is that catch-and-release rewarded traffickers, who knew they could easily get their victims to market in the U.S.

6) This foolish catch-and-release policy had to be changed. But changing from catch-and-release does not require adopting the wicked family separation policy. The choice before the American people does not have to be “wicked versus foolish.”

7) The administration’s decision to separate families is a new, discretionary choice. Anyone saying that their hands are tied or that the only conceivable way to fix the problem of catch-and-release is to rip families apart is flat wrong. There are other options available to them. The other options are all messy (given that some overly prescriptive judges have limited their administrative options), but there are ways to address this that are less bad than the policy of family separation they’ve chosen.

8) There are many senior folks in the administration who hate this policy, and who want to do something better.

9) But some in the administration have decided that this cruel policy increases their legislative leverage. This is wrong. Americans do not take children hostage, period.