Should illegal immigrants ever be separated from their US citizen children?

[Cleita]

107. Allowing people who want to work for people who

need them to work for them is hardly open borders. When I was in high school in So. Calif. the summer job my friends and I had were picking fruit. We worked alongside the braceros then and were paid by the boxes we picked. The braceros were Mexicans who came in during the harvest seasons legally to pick the crops. There weren't enough high school students to meet the need, so the Mexican nationals filled that need. Then a few years later, the bracero law was rescinded. Yes, there were problems; low wages and families sleeping in the fields that they worked in, without proper sanitary facilities, but the workers didn't have to fear being herded into detention centers, humiliated and then deported. The fact is that with some fixing, the law allowing them to come and work legally here was a solution. No it wasn't open borders, because the workers were accounted for because of their paychecks. So we need to revisit that.