TIL Desk/World/Washington/ The United States will not become a “camp” for migrants, President Donald Trump said as he defended his controversial immigration policy of separating children from their parents who illegally enter the US that has triggered widespread outrage. Trump also claimed that criminals are using children to enter the country.
“The US will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility, Trump said at the White House during a meeting for his space council. “You look at what’s happening in Europe, you look at what’s happening in other places, we can’t allow that to happen to the United States. Not on my watch,” he said.
Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their parents in the six week following the administration’s announcement of a “zero-tolerance policy” against illegal border crossings. The separations have triggered a nationwide outcry from Republicans and Democrats who say it is inhumane.
Trump earlier tweeted that he does not want America to have the same experience as that of Europe. “We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us,” he said. “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” Trump tweeted.
