WorldSAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Honduras called on Monday for the United States to stop separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S. border, while El Salvador warned that the policy puts children’s health at risk and could cause psychosocial scars. El Salvador’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the Trump administration’s hardline policy of separating immigrant parents and children violated human rights and “strongly urged” for an end to the practice. Images of children and youths sitting in concrete-floored cages in U.S. detention centers have fanned outrage over the policy. Trump administration officials have defended the policy as a way to secure the border and deter illegal immigrants. El Salvador insisted parents had the right to know where their children were and asked that consular officials be “speedily” notified of where the children have been taken.

Source: Sunday Times June 19, 2018 04:52 UTC