Kirstjen Nielsen in Politico.com

On Immigration: No apology for separating illegal immigrant parent from kids

[Under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy, US authorities hold illegal immigrant adults in jail while their children are sent to government shelters.] Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pushed back at the growing condemnation of her agency's practice of separating migrant families at the border, telling a gathering of law enforcement officers, "We will not apologize for the job we do."

"This department will no longer stand by and watch you attack law enforcement for enforcing the laws passed by Congress," Nielsen said. "We will not apologize for the job we do, or the job law enforcement does, or the job the American people expect us to do."

Releasing parents who bring children across the border would be tantamount to giving them "a get out of jail free card," Nielsen said.

Source: Politico.com on 2018 Trump Administration Jun 18, 2018

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