Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen called on Congress to change laws she said force the government to separate immigrant children from parents who cross the U.S. border unlawfully and called Democrats who say the Trump administration is using the controversy for political leverage “very cowardly.”
Nielsen both defended President Donald Trump’s family separation policy at a White House briefing on Monday and maintained that it wasn’t his creation, but rather a consequence of the government’s prosecution of immigrants apprehended illegally crossing the border.
“Parents who entered illegally are, by definition, criminals,” Nielsen said. “Here is the bottom line: DHS is no longer ignoring the law.”
Nielsen said that previous administrations had also at times separated children from immigrant parents at the border, though “their rate was less than ours.”
"So I want to be clear on a couple of other things," Nielsen said. "The vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of H.H.S. right now — 10,000 of the 12,000 — were sent here alone by their parents. That is when they were separated. So somehow we’ve conflated everything.
"But there is two separate issues. 10,000 of those currently in custody were sent by their parents with strangers to undertake a completely dangerous and deadly travel alone. We now care for them. We have high standards. We give them meals, we give them education, we give them medical care. There is videos, there is TVs, I visited the detention centers myself — that would be my answer to that question."
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4 comments:
Cruz another reason why you didn't win the election, the brain is used for thinking not the back end. You're nothing but a wanta be just like Hillary.
Meanwhile, child protective services separates children from their parents every day here in America. Where is the outcry on that?
Meanwhile, child protective services separates children from their parents here in America everyday. Where is the outcry on that? Ok for Americans but not illegals, huh?
Know it all do-gooders here in the USA will call the police if you let your kid go to the playground next door without you standing there to watch them.
Those very same do-gooders CHEER the parents (a generous description) who send their 11 year old daughter alone on a 2000 mile WALK through 4 or 5 countries where she may be raped, beaten, sold into slavery, or raped and then killed.
They have zero credibility.
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