I get it. You believe those kids being raised by a native family is important enough to forcible remove them from the only loving family they've ever known and very likely traumatize them severely. Those kids don't understand that they should have been placed with a native family to ensure they are raised native. They only know that you are taking them away from the mother, father and family they love by force.

Talk about what should have and could have happened all day. Bring up the ridiculous parallels to kidnapped children. But just understand that those kids welfare isn't your first consideration. Making sure their parents have the correct ethnicity is.

Yes, that may have been a mistake. But, do we traumatize these kids by ripping them away from the only loving parents and happy home they know to fix that mistake? Or do we leave them in that loving home, and work harder to bettet place native children in native homes going forward?

Native children should be placed with Native foster parents of the same tribe whenever possible. I think we can all agree upon that. But the cases were talking about and the people suing are white families that have native children. These kids are in happy homes with loving parents, but the tribes think preserving those children's culture is worth ripping those children away from the only parents they've ever known. The trauma you cause a young child when you rip it away from its mother and father is devastating, and the child may never recover.

There needs to be flexibility in the system. Make every attempt to place a native child with a native family. But if you have a native child that's grown up with a set of white parents. And those parents are loving and they're well taken care of and a happy home, don't rip them out of that family and cause them devastating trauma for the sake of preserving their heritage. It's just not worth it.

Nice strawman argument. I'm not saying anyone is advocating for them to go free, but too often that's the end result and they reoffend and hurt a new victim. You cannot deny that.

Sadly, there comes a point where a person is a danger to others and I don't care about their mental health anymore. Too often someone is brought in on a 72 hr hold where you force them to take their meds and stabilize them, then turn them lose to stop taking their meds and become a danger to others. Or a child molester is kept in prison where he cannot molest kids, then released into society with the same desires that got him arrested in the first place.

Either lock them up where they can get treatment and supervision, and there are plenty of programs and mental health outreach for that, or put them down as humanely as possible.

Instead we keep releasing them in an attempt to be compassionate and give them a second chance and they reoffend, and that's not fair to the victims they hurt. I feel the same way about career violent criminals and vicious dogs who attack people. Sorry, but my sadness over your wasted life of violence, your fault or not, is outweighed by my concern for your victims.