Separating parents from children at the border is Trump’s policy, not a law

Sarah Sanders stands at the White House podium and repeats Trump's lie that there is a law requiring children to be taken from their parents at the border.

This is a lie, and they know it.

There is no law, it is Trump's policy. He started this, and he could stop it at any time.

— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) June 14, 2018

"Parents are facing a nightmare at the U.S. border" https://t.co/VeFHzqNuSR

— TIME (@TIME) June 14, 2018

We have questions, @VP: Is it the policy of deporting immigrant youth from the only home they’ve ever known that you’re calling compassionate, or ripping babies away from their parents at the border? https://t.co/QF0XrhnRRN

— ACLU (@ACLU) June 14, 2018

Infant ripped from mother's arms while she was breastfeeding the baby at border detention center; mother handcuffed for resisting https://t.co/vhbsGKrWLo

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 13, 2018

Reporter asks @PressSec about the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border.

"Sarah, you're a parent. Don't you have empathy for what these people are going through?" pic.twitter.com/Jh41PUR3Uj

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 14, 2018

REPORTER: Are you comfortable with the current zero tolerance policy leading to parents and children being separated at the border?

SPEAKER RYAN: No I am not….this I do think ought to be addressed. We beleive it should be addressed in immigration legislation

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 14, 2018

Jeff Sessions said people crossing the border with children shouldn't expect immunity from prosecution, considering that having children "certainly doesn't give immunity to American citizens who commit crimes." pic.twitter.com/w0xHgmFjWT

— POLITICO (@politico) June 14, 2018

What’s going on at the border is horrifying, but we can’t go numb and turn away: https://t.co/XZ9Mziud9g pic.twitter.com/2U8PpqdAN5

— Slate (@Slate) June 14, 2018