Trump health official says he warned against separating children
By Maya Lora - 07/31/18 02:32 PM EDT
A Trump administration official told lawmakers Tuesday that he warned against "any policy" separating children from their parents, citing concerns about their health and wellbeing.
"During the deliberative process over the previous year we raised a number of concerns in the ORR [Office of Refugee Resettlement] program about any policy which would result in family separation due to concerns we had about the best interest of the child as well about whether that would be operationally supportable with the bed capacity we have," Commander Jonathan White of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps testified during a Senate Judiciary hearing on the administration's immigration policies.
"Separation of children from their parents entails significant risk of harm to children," White, the federal health coordinating official for the efforts to reunify migrant children and their families. added. "There's no question, there's no question that separation of children from parents entails significant potential for traumatic psychological injury to the child."
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