Today in Trump’s Prison Camps for Children: White House Ignores Their Cries

“Nobody knows how much we are paying for this monstrosity that’s been created over the years”, he said.

Almost 2,000 children were separated from their families over a six-week period in April and May after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the new “zero-tolerance” policy that refers all cases of illegal entry for criminal prosecution. People caught crossing illegally now face automatic criminal prosecution.

In case you haven’t been watching the news or following any social media timelines, the Trump administration is now separating children from their families at the border and keeping them in literal cages.

Trump also accused the news media, through its reporting of the issue, of “helping the smugglers, these traffickers” who are exploiting legislative loopholes. He did not elaborate.

“Thousands of children are being forcibly removed from their parents by our government”.

They have joined a growing chorus of voices condemning the policy, as the White House said it was looking at emergency legislation meant to keep immigrant families together, tabled by Republican senator Ted Cruz, of Texas.

An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility is fuelling fury over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.

Mr Cruz’s bill would double the number of federal immigration judges, authorise new temporary shelters to house migrant families and limit the processing of asylum cases to no more than 14 days – a goal immigrant advocates say would be hard to meet.

“Who are these people?” asked Trump.

“You look at what’s happening in Europe, you look at what’s happening in other places”. The immigrants plead guilty to illegally entering the USA, and they are typically sent either to jail or directly to an immigration detention center. “I don’t want them to deport him”. “I think, and this is my opinion, liberals are going to just try to hype up the emotions”.

Former First Lady Laura Bush meanwhile wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that the tactics were “immoral” and evoked Japanese-American internment camps during the Second World War. “Mexico does nothing for us”, charged Trump. “They could stop it”.

Mr. Trump also once again blamed Democrats for his own policy. He said he supported the bill, I guess.

Yes, it is true that child separation policies have been around long since Trump took office, but it is the Trump administration that has justified separating families at the border.

House Republicans were working on a revised draft of one version of an immigration overhaul that would prevent family separations in some cases for those attempting an illegal border crossing for the first time, according to a House Republican aide.

Trump officials have suggested that migrants are coached to invent stories of gang-related threats, and that separating families could deter people from starting unsafe journeys to the US border.

“I don’t want children taken away from parents”, he told a gathering of small business owners, before adding: “When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away”.

But let’s come up to the present time – With Attorney General Jeff Sessions deriding longtime US immigration practices as “catch and release”. It is not clear that either piece of legislation has enough votes to win passage.

Donald Trump may have campaigned for president by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals and calling for a wall on the southern border, but he also periodically showed a softer side towards immigrants.

President Donald Trump on Monday pushed for a merit-based immigration system, saying it will help companies like Boeing and Lockheed hire people.

As a result, children are taken away from their parents, because they can not be taken to adult jails.