Melania Trump calls for a country that ‘governs with the heart’

US FIRST Lady Melania Trump has hit back at her husband’s hard line approach to immigration as she called to end the policy of separating children from their parents.

Mrs Trump’s statement comes after nearly 2000 children were found to have been separated from their families at the US-Mexico border across a six week period.

Her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said the first lady believes “we need to be a country that follows all laws,” but also one “that governs with heart”.

Ms Grisham said Mrs Trump “hates to see children separated from their families” and hopes “both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform”.

The tough approach means adults who try and cross the border face custody and even criminal prosecution for illegal entry.

The policy has seen minors locked up in detention centres and kept away from their parents, but the spokesman insisted minors were held in decent conditions.

“We have some of the highest detention standards in the world for children,” he said.

About 1500 boys are being held in a former Walmart supermarket in Texas, and the government is erecting tent structures near the border to house the increasing number of migrant children, including unaccompanied minors, in custody.


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