Homeland Security boss defends separating immigrant families

"What we'll be doing is prosecuting parents who've broken the law, just as we do every day in the United States of America."

What a disingenuous analogy. Immigrants and asylum seekers are traveling with their families. Their kids are thousands of miles from home, and then separated from their parents. The heartlessness of this administration is sickening. I don't care what rationale you put on it, it's an inhumane policy.

The only family these people care about is their own.

It took less time than I expected to reach the concentration camp portion of the Republicans' ethnic cleansing program.

Like what happened in the Velodrome d’Hiver.

I weep for the lost honor of my country.

Heartless and sick behavior. An entire lack of compassion for humanity.

Just last week, President Donald Trump criticized Nielsen at a Cabinet meeting for not doing enough to stop illegal border crossings. He discounted her explanation that her department faces legal restrictions on what it can do, according to people familiar with the exchange.

Reassuring to see President Pørnø still displaying the same contempt for the law as he's shown throughout his business career.

How they got here is not relevant. Parents and children are here, and we must deal with them. The fact that they crossed the border illegally does not give us the right to mistreat or torture them.

Every time a parent is caught committing a crime they are subject to being separated from their parents. I don’t imagine jail is a suitable environment for kids. If it’s okay for Americans who break the law I don’t see why non-Americans should be exempt from the same treatment. Illegal immigrants aren’t above the law. The parents are to blame for their children’s situation when they decided to take their kids with them when they broke the law.

There is one foolproof way for an illegal immigrant to not be separated from their children and that is by not breaking the law. It is completely up to them.

There is one foolproof way for an illegal immigrant to not be separated from their children and that is by not breaking the law. It is completely up to them.

So you believe the mistreatment of children is a morally justifiable deterrent to illegal immigration. How enlightened.