Apparently there are consequences for illegally entering the country...
"illegally"?
Trump's words ring especially hollow in light of his administration's actions just two days before that tweet, when it was announced that
he had nominated Ronald Mortensen, a fellow with the far-right anti-immigration group, the Center for Immigration Studies, to work as assistant secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the State Department. The
bureau's missionis to "provide protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world," but Mortensen, in the tradition of Trump appointees, has a career that strongly suggests he objects to the very mission of the group he's been challenged with leading.
“Trump is stacking the immigration wing of his administration wing with people connected to hate groups," explained Heidi Beirich, the
head of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. “They’re undermining immigration policy by putting anti-immigrant folks into positions of authority in the administration over these issues.”
https://www.salon.com/2018/05/30/ne...wants-to-expand-the-war-on-legal-immigration/
“There is no question that President Trump administration’s policy of separating mothers and fathers from their children is designed to impose severe mental suffering on these families, in order to deter others from trying to seek safety in the USA. Many of these families come from countries experiencing generalized violence and grave human rights violations, including Honduras and El Salvador. This is a flagrant violation of the human rights of these parents and children and is also a violation of US obligations under refugee law.”
Amnesty International recently interviewed 17 asylum-seeking parents who were forcibly separated from their children, and all but three of them had entered the USA legally to request asylum.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/06/usa-family-separation-torture/
