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One of the reasons you are feeling beleaguered, Rebecca, is that you don’t know how to stay in one lane.

Let’s simplify things. 

Do you feel a policy of separating children from their parents is right or wrong?

Do you feel people have the right to be angry over a policy of separating children from their parents?

Separating children from parents is not a good option at all. It is traumatic without a doubt. Also lets not pretend that the detention centers are subhuman places. Many of those detained are being fed, clothed, educated and getting medical care that exceeds what they may have experienced before. To equate it to concentration camps is a huge leap. It is an unfair comparison to Japanese detainment camps also. One was detaining American citizens and the other is detaining those that broke the law.

There has to be some middle ground solution that neither side is happy with but both can live with.

Hmmm... official raised eyebrow...

Rebecca you're a very interesting person. Personally I think your posts today have been perfectly lucid.(and I'm a country mile to the right of you politically) I intend to read them more carefully in the future. 

Oh...and take it from a New Yorker...staying in one lane is overrated.  

There have been some documented cases, but it’s not the norm.

The fifth amendment says no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.

Here's Trump's own words (the capitalisations are his also): "When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came."

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The Flores agreement originally was about unaccompanied minors, and it stated that minors had to be placed with family without delay and had to be kept in the least restrictive conditions possible while in federal custody. The Obama administration was actually using family detention as a reason to expedite the deportation of families and as a deterrent to illegal immigrants crossing together as a family. The courts ruled that Obama could not use family detention as a deterrent and subsequently decided that the Flores agreement meant that any minor could not be detained more than 20 days. 

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The more cynical critics of the GOP would claim this is by design. Explode the debt and use that as an excuse to cut Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs. 

Revenues are up 4% this year. You're damn right about "thanks for the tax cuts". The government is collecting record revenue. The problem is, and continues to be, with spending.

Regarding a passive stance to injustice. A friend sent along this quote to me from;

Prof. Henry J. Cadbury, quoted in the New York Times of June 15, 1934. I'm pretty sure he was wrong. (via Angus Johnston, @studentactivism)

"By hating Hitler and trying to fight back, Jews are only increasing the severity of his policies against them. If Jews throughout the world try to instill into the minds of Hitler and his supporters recognition of the ideals for which the race stands, and if Jews appeal to the German sense of justice and the German national conscience, I am sure the problem will be solved more effectively and earlier than otherwise."

Reserving harsh terms for what you consider more harsh behavior or ideologies only moves the bar in the wrong direction.