Sessions: Parents 'recklessly' send unaccompanied migrant kids to U.S.
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
06/25/2018 02:28 PM EDT
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to avoid separating families at the border, but took a jab at parents who "recklessly" send children to the United States on their own.
Sessions defended the administration's immigration policies in a speech in Reno, Nev., before the National Association of School Resource Officers school safety conference. He said the unaccompanied minors in the U.S. cost $1 billion annually, and that word "got out that this country was not prosecuting adults who illegally came to this country so long as they brought a child with them."
Sessions said "predictably" the number of people illegally entering with children surged from 14,000 in 2013 to 75,000 in 2017.
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