Facts and figures about Trump adminstration’s move to separate immigrant families

“You look at what’s happening in Europe, you look at what’s happening in other places”.

Since 7 May, all adults caught crossing the U.S. border illegally are being charged with federal crimes, resulting in parents being separated from their children.

“This must not be who we are as a nation”, said Representative Jerrold Nadler, one of seven members of Congress from NY and New Jersey who met with five detainees inside a facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, including three who said they had young relatives removed from their care after seeking asylum at the border. Critics, including Trump, have called that “catch and release”.

Obama was also criticised after photos in 2014, showed children in similar holding cells, also referred to by rights groups as “cages”. This was a critical event, as the children moved from legal processing centers to administrative detention built around the controlled welfare and care of non-criminal persons. “Not going to happen in the U.S”.

“All of us who are seeing images of children being pulled away from moms and dads in tears were horrified”, Cruz told reporters Monday.

“My mother-in-law never viewed her embrace of that fragile child as courageous”.

“Congress could fix this tomorrow”, Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen said Monday.

After Trump ordered tougher action, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero tolerance” policy on May 7. The law makes no provision for denying asylum seekers entry if the ports are busy.

The result is that in the six weeks following Sessions’ announcement, almost 2,000 minors were separated from adults at the border.

Clinton, former first lady, secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee, said at an awards lunch for the Women’s Forum of NY that the separations are not required by law and are not grounded in any religion.

The first core fallacy of President TrumpDonald John Trump20 weeks out from midterms, Dems and GOP brace for surprises Sessions responds to Nazi comparisons: “They were keeping the Jews from leaving” Kim Jong Un to visit Beijing this week MORE is to equate President Obama’s policy of temporarily holding unaccompanied children in closed centers with its decision to forcibly separate accompanied children from their parents upon surrender to USA authorities.

“I’m a lot nervous”, said one GOP aide.

According to Google, Americans are now searching in increasing numbers for how to help these children.

White House aides want to use the meeting to allow the president, in his own words, to clear up confusion he sowed in the House GOP conference late last week over its dueling immigration bills.

Her criticism of the protocol of separating immigrant kids from their parents should they cross the border illegally also came in the wake of the leader’s recent remarks that the Democrats were to blame for the policy being introduced.

Perhaps a bigger obstacle is that Republicans, now in control of Congress, have been deeply divided on immigration.

Fox News host Dana Perino reacted to the release of jarring and heartbreaking audio of children who had been separated from their families sobbing at a detention facility near our nation’s border.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the Freedom Caucus, said he’s skeptical that even a full-throated endorsement from Trump will be enough to get the compromise bill through the House.

The House of Representatives is slated to vote on two immigration bills this week, but both face an uncertain path through the Senate to Trump’s desk.

The Republican president blamed Democrats for not coming to the table to negotiate immigration legislation.

“It’s a risky situation for this country and it’s all on the backs of the Democrats”, he told Fox News. Sessions said this policy aimed to deter others from arriving. On Monday, he defended it again saying it was a matter of rule of law, “We can not and will not encourage people to bring children by giving them blanket immunity from our laws”.