'We Do Not Have A Policy' Of Separating Families, DHS Head Says, Contradicting Policy

Doral Editor

6 years ago

A child eats at an unaccompanied alien children program shelter in Brownsville, Texas, in an undated handout photo that was obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services by Reuters. The government says it separated nearly 2,000 children from adults at the U.S. southern border over the course of six recent weeks.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy in a series of tweets. Former first lady Laura Bush said the policy “breaks my heart.

(Image credit: Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Reuters)

(via NPR)