Expelling authorities separated children from parents to convert them

Evidence

As for children of a tender age, they were excluded from the expulsion orders, or to put it another way and to be more explicit, were not allowed to leave with their parents! Obviously such exemptions, when viewed through the eyes of the Christian authorities, looked quite different from the way they looked to the Jews and Muslims. The authorities were moved by a desire not to deprive the innocent young of their chance of hearing the gospel of Christ and so of becoming true Christians. Anybody who drove the innocents away from Christendom would bear a dreadful responsibility. (This type of argument was to be repeated again and again in Spain much later, when the expulsion of the Muslims was under discussion.) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 120

Categorization

• SEED: The child-separation argument reformulated as ‘Christian protection’ reads eerily against modern detention practice — an essay on how expulsion regimes justify keeping children as humanitarian rescue.