(18 Jun 2018) Lawmakers from both parties are calling family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border inhumane, though they are also accusing each other of politicizing the issue.
Nearly 2,000 minors have been separated from their families in the past six weeks, since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy where everyone caught crossing the border illegally will be prosecuted. Children can't go to jail with their parents, so they are separated.
Trump has been pushing back against criticism of his zero-tolerance policy.
He is pointing the finger at Democrats, faulting them "for being weak and ineffective" on immigration.
But it's not the Democrats' law. There is no law mandating the separation of children and parents at the border. And Trump's own Republican Party controls both chambers of Congress.
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