Trump Studies Separating Children And Parents At The Border

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

John Kelly, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, confirmed that his department is considering separating children from their parents when they illegally cross the border into Mexico.

In an interview for CNN's The Situation Room program, Kelly said that the department in his charge is considering implementing that measure, which would not be the first time that it is studied as an option. "Yes, I am considering it, to prevent further movement along this terribly dangerous network, I am considering exactly that," Wolf Blitzer told the interviewer.

The executive also stated that the children who experience this situation "will be well treated while we take care of their parents," and added: "We hand them over (to the Department of Health and Human Services) who do a very, very good job taking them to homes in temporary foster care or reuniting them with their parents or relatives in the United States”.

CNN reported last week that David Lapan, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, had said that the agency "continually explores options that may discourage even starting the journey."

According to that same chain, Leon Fresco, a former Justice Department official under the presidency of Barack Obama, declared that his administration had contemplated that measure, but ended up rejecting it because it was too harmful for the little ones. "It was thought that it was always preferable to detain the family as a unit or liberate the family as a unit," he said.