All five living first ladies condemn U.S. separation policy

The separation of immigrant parents and their children at US’ southern border has turned into a topic of intense debate in recent days, with even First Lady Melania Trump commenting against it.

Hillary Clinton, a stern opponent of President Trump, took to social media to criticise the policy, calling it a “humanitarian crisis”. “It is immoral. And it breaks my heart”, Bush writes.

Since April, nearly 2,000 children have been separated from parents detained for illegally crossing into the United States.

But on Monday, the nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica published what it said was a recording made inside one of the facilities run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection where children taken from their parents are housed.

Democratic Congressman Peter Welch has criticised the conditions in which children are being housed.

“Jesus said, ‘Suffer the little children unto me.’ He did not say let the children suffer”. “It is nothing short of a prison”. “We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!” he said.

The Trump administration has come under withering criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike for the current zero-tolerance immigration policy being implemented at the border.

Asked about critics accusing the administration of using children as “pawns” to demand legislative actions from Congress, the DHS secretary replied, “I say that is a very cowardly response”, adding it is clearly within Congress’ power “to make the laws and change the laws”. “Democrats are good at only three things, High Taxes, High Crime and Obstruction”.

Because the children of prosecuted migrants are not charged with any crime, they are not permitted to be jailed with their parents.

A new Quinnipiac poll shows 66 percent of Americans oppose Trump’s family separation strategy. “The government is literally taking kids away from their parents and leaving them in inappropriate conditions”, Brane said. If he means what he says about family separation, Katko should attach a provision to the bill that bars the administration from doing it. “Using children, young children, as political foils is abhorrent”, said Sen Jack Reed, D-R.I.

In a separate tweet, she accused the news media and others of misreporting the issue and called on those seeking asylum to do so at ports of entry rather than crossing illegally.

“Separating families is not mandated by law at all”, Clinton said.

Anita McBride, executive-in-residence at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington and a former chief of staff for Mrs. I’ve said it before and I will say it again, it is child abuse; not physical, it’s psychological. “They can not be reduced to media soundbites”, she said in another tweet.

The administration has sought to place the onus for the separations on the parents who bring their children on the journey into the United States.