If you don’t want your child separated, then don’t bring them across the border illegally. They said filing criminal charges against migrants, including parents traveling with children, would be the “most effective” way to tamp down on illegal border crossings. Until now, most families apprehended crossing the border illegally have been released to await civil deportation hearings. Last fiscal year, the number of immigration prosecutions declined 14 percent, to nearly 60,000. “Eleven million people are already here illegally,” Sessions said in his speech.

Source: Washington Post May 07, 2018 17:44 UTC