Indeed, this manufactured crisis is mostly to distract us from the IG testifying in congress. It funny because I was trying to sound the alarm during the Obama administration. Basically the Obama policy was a gift to the private prison industry, he created policies in order to create a large population of detainees for private detention centers. Those kids are cash cows, some of them are worth $1000 a day. That's how much the government pays to house some of them.
I know what the solution is, end the Obama policy that said that all unaccompanied minors get amnesty and then they will stop sending 10,000 unaccompanied minors.
The solution is to enforce the laws. If you don't like the laws then the solution is to change them but the solution is never to not enforce the laws.
It's not right but it is also not out fault, the blame for the separations is the criminals who put their kids in that situation. When a rapist gets busted nobody complains that his kids are separated from him when he goes to jail. Don't do the crime if you don't want to be separated from your kids.
2/3 of the people in American prisons have kids, and all of them are separated from their kids, that's what happens when you commit a crime.