I know you mean well and want to save the world from trolls, but this is not a hypothetical. I have a friend who is in this exact situation (previous administration, don't get your hopes up for another story for your bandwagon). The parents had temporary asylum. They had kids in the US. Asylum expired and was not renewed. They've been fighting a court battle for several years now because there's an order to deport the parents and place the kids in foster care. They would prefer to stay in the US, but failing that they would like to leave with their children.

And people should have an option to do that. That's entirely different than getting kidnapped without any process.

Now imagine being a judge, and you are supposed to allow a US citizen child to be taken to a country that is hostile to the US. In the current media climate.

And this is exactly the problem with these knee-jerk emotional reactions: reality is a lot more complicated.

I honestly cannot. There is almost nothing worse than losing your kids. It might be worse than death. The humane solution is to allow a deported parent to keep them.

Ok, let's try some empathy and humane thinking: you don't throw out either of them in that case.

The incentive already exists. But this case is about US citizen kids, not kids brought in. So concentrating on that:

> The families, who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities

> Both families have possible immigration relief

The current actions did not make sense and didn't make anything better or solve any problems.

Valid points. The question is after a judge orders a deportation and the executive is insistent on carrying it out, what would you do with citizen kids after the deportation of their parents?

So you'd create extra incentive for having anchor babies in the US? At least the people doing this now have to wait until their anchors become adults and can petition for them.