Here's a fun question to ponder: Does making a mistake as you debate an issue automatically mean you're wrong?
The short answer is no - this is formally called the argument from fallacy (although I prefer fallacy fallacy myself).
It's come up as I see liberals being criticized on social media and in other areas for a few of the pictures featuring detained children. Some of them were actually from President Obama's term. Others were from protests or otherwise aren't actually detained immigrants. All of them leave the left looking more than a bit foolish.
... and it still doesn't change the simple fact that immigrant parents are being separated from their children.
Nor does it change the fact that it is within President Trump's power to unilaterally resolve the issue. He doesn't even have to refuse to prosecute some immigrants; all he has to do is instruct the authorities to set a date for them to come back for hearings/trials and then let them go. Some of them won't come back, sure, but I'd rather be dealing with that problem than the one we have right now.
So if you want to make some liberals look like fools, sure, you can keep bringing up points like this. In the end, though, it's not going to bring us any closer to a resolution on this issue, because doing so doesn't actually make those liberals wrong.
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