President Trump speaks during a roundtable on immigration and the gang MS-13 at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, N.Y., May 23, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)President Trump and his top administration officials repeatedly warned Wednesday that unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the southern border are potentially exposing the nation to eventual gang crime. “We have the worst immigration laws of any country, anywhere in the world,” Trump said at the roundtable held at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. “They exploited the loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors.”Trump added: “They look so innocent. But his critics say Trump is unfairly conflating crime from a smaller subset of immigrants with the broader undocumented population.

Source: Washington Post May 23, 2018 20:31 UTC