To the Point
Immigration enforcement and family breakups
Seven hundred children have been separated from adults applying for asylum at the Mexican border. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says that’s what it takes to prevent immigration fraud--even if it means breaking up families.
By Warren Olney • • 33m ListenAsylum seekers who cross the Mexican border are put in jail, but children are not allowed. Some kids end up hundreds of miles from the grownups they came with for months at a time. Are they really part of the same family, or pawns in the game of immigration fraud? Even some hard-line immigration opponents want that and other questions answered with greater humanity.
