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US child migrants: 2,000 separated from families in six weeks
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IANS | 16 Jun, 2018
Almost 2,000 migrant children were separated from their families at the US border over six weeks, officials say.
Following
a Trump administration crackdown on illegal border crossings from
Mexico, adults are being detained, meaning the children with them are
removed from their care, BBC reported on Saturday.
The issue is causing a growing political storm in the US.
On Thursday Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible to defend the "zero tolerance" approach.
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means that those entering the US irregularly are criminally prosecuted,
a change to a long-standing policy of charging most of those crossing
for the first time with a misdemeanour offence.
As the adults are
being charged with a crime and detained, the children that travel with
them are being separated and classed as unaccompanied minors.
Figures
from the US Department of Homeland Security show that 1,995 children
were separated from 1,940 adults who are being held between April 19 and
May 31.
No information was given on the age of the separated children.
The
children are passed into the care of the US Department of Health and
Human Services. They are transferred to government detention facilities
or foster care while officials try to resolve their case.
The United Nations has called on the US to immediately halt the separations.
Sessions said having children would not shield border-crossing migrants from prosecution.
The attorney general quoted a verse from St Paul's Letter to the Romans on obeying the laws of government.
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