Trump: To prosecute migrants, ‘you have to take the children away’

US President Donald Trump defends the “zero tolerance” policy leading to thousands of migrant families being split on the US border as the only effective way to fight illegal immigration.

“I don’t want children taken away from parents,” he tells a gathering of small business owners, before adding: “When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away.”

“We don’t have to prosecute them, but then we are not prosecuting them for coming in illegally. That’s not good.”

— AFP

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