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New York: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that has separated children from their parents at the southern US border “a moral and humanitarian crisis.”
Speaking at an awards lunch for the Women’s Forum of New York, Clinton said what was happening to families at the US-Mexico border is “horrific.”
Teens who have been taken into custody on the US-Mexico border rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas.
Photo: US Border Protection
“Every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged,” Clinton said.
The separations stem from a policy that turns all cases of people trying to enter the country illegally over for criminal prosecution. Children are not detained with their parents when those parents are facing a criminal charge, as per US protocol.
President Donald Trump has defended the policy, which has taken nearly 2000 immigrant children away from their parents.
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