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While the president has falsely claimed that he has no choice on breaking up families because of a law passed by Democrats, Bush laid the blame squarely on the president's policies — namely, the Department of Justice’s "zero tolerance" policy with which it began. On Friday, Department of Homeland Security officials told reporters that 1,995 children had been separated from their parents over a six-week period, from April 19 to May 31. In her op-ed article, Bush appealed to Americans’ sense of morality and painted the policy as a dark stain on the nation’s history that she compared to the HIV/AIDS crisis and Japanese internment. "These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned," she wrote. Rosalynn Carter called the policy of separating families "disgraceful and a shame to our country." Michelle Obama also weighed in to support Bush. The current first lady, Melania Trump, commented over the weekend on what's happening at the border, pushing for bipartisan cooperation to end the separation of migrant children from their parents at the border. "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," according to a statement from her spokeswoman. "She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart."

NBC's Mariana Atencio asks migrant mothers why they are illegally crossing the border, knowing that they could be prosecuted and separated from their children. One mother answers: "I'm freeing violence from Honduras -- our lives are threatened. We cannot be…

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Bishop Michael Curry, who delivered an impassioned sermon about love at the royal wedding, and Father James Martin join Lawrence to respond to Donald Trump's team using the Bible to justify its cruelty towards children and families on the southern…

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen hit back at criticism of the Trump administration's practice of separating families at the border, saying DHS will not watch the media "attack law enforcement for enforcing the laws passed by Congress."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is using the Bible to justify separating families at the border. Father James Martin joins Ali Velshi to discuss what the Bible actually says about migrants and refugees. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is…

CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses the Trump administration's stance on immigration. The policies enforced by the administration have received harsh criticism for separating dozens of families.

Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, Sanders invoked the Bible to defend the Trump administration’s immigration policy of separating mothers from their children. Child abuse is now part of America's official immigration policy | Michael Paarlberg Read more She was speaking at Thursday’s White House briefing, in response to a question about comments made by the attorney general Jeff Sessions, where he cited a passage in the Bible to justify the policy. He added: “Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.” Sanders was asked about Sessions’ statement, and was challenged: “Where does it say in the Bible that’s moral to take children away from mothers?” Pushing back, Sanders said: “I’m not aware of the attorney general’s comments or what he would be referencing, [but] I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is repeated throughout the Bible.” The policy of separating undocumented parents from their children at the border was announced by Sessions in May as part of a “zero-tolerance policy”. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.” It has since met a wide range of criticism including from the United Nations human rights office as well as from prominent evangelical groups. The Republican bill would also ensure more than $23bn in border security, a majority of which would be used to build a wall along the border with Mexico. The House is expected to vote on the bill and an alternative, more conservative plan next week. The White House defence came as it emerged that the US government will open a temporary shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children in far west Texas, as existing facilities for children reach capacity under the zero-tolerance policy. A spokesman for the US Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday that the department had selected the Tornillo port of entry as a temporary shelter location, 40 miles south-east of El Paso, in an area of desert where temperatures routinely approach 100F (37C). Hundreds of families have been separated, with parents detained and their children placed in government shelters.

The Border Patrol’s El Paso sector has started a new initiative designed to show immigrants that crossing illegally could cost them their life FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well…