Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says US is working on migration crackdown agreement with Central America.
“As a consequence for a parent going to jail, we in this country do not take the children to jail,” Nielsen responded.Later, Nielsen repeated there was never a family separations policy, prompting Rice to heatedly respond:"When you knew that that policy was going to result in children having to be taken away from their parents. That is a policy. You should admit it."
In June, a federal judge ordered the reunification of more than 2,700 children who were separated from their parents under the policy. Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union are now pressing for the governmentwho were separated before the policy’s official announcement. Nielsen defended Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, saying it was not a “manufactured crisis.”During her opening remarks, she said immigration officials saw a 30 percent increase in February of migrants crossing the southern border, adding that at the current pace the U.S. was on track to encounter one million migrants at this year.
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