1. Thanks, you got it, no need to point out the paperwork needed.1. Yes, "comes to live", not "wants to live, without following that country's immigration procedures".
2. Yes, the US could put them all up in a 5 star hotel with their parents, along with anyone else awaiting a hearing. Any reason they should? When a stranger knocks at your front door, do you feel obliged to invite them in, cook for them, and let them stay with you for as long they wish? How about if they break in?
3. The issue was exaggerated from the beginning. Most of children in these detention centers are not there because of family separation. Should they also be held in hotels pending trial as well (along with their human traffickers)?
4. A detention facility is not a jail. The only reason these kids can't go where they wish is because they have nowhere they can go - they can't be allowed to simply enter the US, and they have no one to look after them in Mexico or elsewhere. They are being detained for their own good, so they don't end up on the streets trying to steal food to survive, or worse.
Still yet to hear a reasonable alternative to the system in place.
2. More silliness, but again, you got that the USA 'underperformed' — is that PC enough for you — to be called abusive. Your hyperbole makes that very clear.
3. Human traffickers now? When you have the numbers for those 'trafficked children' in their 'rescue shelters', do let us know. Apparently it's beyond the powers of the CBP to come up with them. Which kinda puts the lie to what god-guys they are in all this. They're 'trafficking' in the kids too, not re-uniting them with their families. And they don't even know how many they've got.
4. More PC bullshit; a detention facility is a jail. Your claim that it's for their own good, and better than any alternative fails unless you produce parents, children and impartial observers who support it. None so far.
As to that reasonable alternative you're waiting to hear about, I suggest you check the White House website. He's the guy in charge of such stuff. Or do you imagine it won't be reasonable?