With the crackdown in full swing, the detained parents are "in jail settings," the official said, awaiting adjudication and possible prosecution for crossing the border. "The president fully supports both the Goodlatte bill and the House leadership bill," according to White House spokesman Raj Shah. There is no law that requires parents be separated from their children at the border. But if parents in the United States are jailed, their children are split from them because the children are not themselves charged with a crime. "We do not separate breastfeeding children from their parents," the DHS official said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok June 15, 2018 22:07 UTC