'Practice' or 'Policy'?

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."