They're getting squeamish now.
Trump administration scrambles as outrage grows over border separations
Homeland security secretary claims administration is simply enforcing the law as photos and audio of children fuel anger
The Trump administration struggled on Monday to defend its policy of separating parents from their sons and daughters at the southern US border amid growing national outrage and the release of
a shocking recording of sobbing children.
As the White House scrambled to respond to the deepening political crisis, the homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, flew from New Orleans to Washington to face a barrage of questions from reporters, even as
Democratsdemanded her resignation and the outcry reached a critical mass.
Nielsen claimed that America was a country of ācompassionā and āheartā but was unable to square the circle regarding whether the separations were a vindication of the administrationās āzero toleranceā policy towards illegal immigration or an unintended consequence of a law made by the
US Congress.
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