Parents, Children Entering U.S. Illegally Will Be Separated

[RandySF]

“The Trump administration plans to take a tougher approach to families that enter the U.S. illegally by separating parents from their children, instead of keeping them in detention together,” NBC News reports.

Said Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “If you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.”


https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/07/parents-children-entering-u-s-illegally-will-be-separated/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. We are a disgrace and planet wide embarrassment.

[malaise]

2. There will soon be a trafficking of children

scandal.

[Ohiogal]

3. Tell Melly, she is "all for" kids "Being Best!"

What an f-ing freak show embarrassment they all are.

[Shrike47]

4. Child abuse, it is what makes America great.

[louis-t]

5. Because republicans feel it is their lot in life

to punish people.

[Doreen]

6. I see Sessions as the head of a new child labor ring.

They are not going to allow those children to become citizens so what do they do with them? this administration is evil.

[dalton99a]

7. It is a policy that was proposed by John Kelly and approved by Kirstjen Nielsen

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366131-dhs-could-approve-policy-to-separate-families-at-border-report

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have signed off on a plan to separate families who are caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, officials close to discussions on the proposal told The New York Times.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has final approval power, however, and officials told the newspaper that she has yet to sign off on the plan. The White House favors the proposed policy, the newspaper reported.

Rumors have been circulating for months that the Trump administration may implement such a plan. President Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a priority and vowed tougher measures to deter illegal border crossings.

Former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who now serves as White House chief of staff, said earlier this year that the Homeland Security Department was considering the policy as a means to discourage whole families from coming into the U.S. illegally, but later backtracked after backlash.