Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is insisting migrant children separated from their parents and siblings are being taken care of well, just 24 hours after issuing a statement insisting there is no policy to separate the children.
“It is important to note that these minors are very well taken care of,” Secretary Nielsen said Monday morning, speaking to the National Sheriffs’ Association. “Don’t believe the press,” she said, sounding like her boss, President Trump.
Sec. Nielsen insisted that DHS is providing “all needs that the child requests.”
There are reports the children cannot speak to their parents, and are not even allowed to hug or be hugged.
Also, many of the children are too young to know what they need, or too scared to ask.
Child development experts repeatedly have stated that separating children from their parents can have life-long traumatic results.
The Dept. of Health and Human Services is currently is housing nearly 12,000 migrant children, including the 2000 that were separated over the past six weeks from their families after Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on immigration.
Watch Secretary Nielsen: