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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen reiterated there is not a policy of separating families at the border just days after DHS said 1,995 minors were separated from their "alleged adult guardians."
Mark Fiore

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen reiterated there is not a policy of separating families at the border just days after the DHS said 1,995 minors were separated from their "alleged adult guardians."

At a White House press conference on Monday, Nielsen said, "this administration did not create a policy of separating families at the border," after tweeting a similar message on Sunday.

In May, when announcing the administration's "zero-tolerance" policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, "if you are smuggling a child, we will prosecute you. And that child will be separated from you."

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