Women of faith gather outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters to call on the Trump administration to halt its policy of detaining immigrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, during a demonstration in Washington, U.S., June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Fogarty
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday urged an end to the Trump administration policy of separating children from parents trying to enter the United States illegally at the border with Mexico.
Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court “Some administration officials reportedly view the policy of separating children from their parents as leverage to gain other immigration policy changes from Congress,” Thomas Donohue, the group’s president, said in a statement.
“Surely a nation as big, generous, and compassionate as the United States can find a way to prevent separating children from their parents at the border. If we can’t agree on that, then we can’t agree on anything.”
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Lisa Lambert)
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