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    'We Do Not Have A Policy' Of Separating Families, DHS Head Says, Contradicting Policy

    Adding his voice to the controversy, President Trump says the U.S. "will not be a migrant camp." Former first lady Laura Bush said the administration's zero-tolerance policy "breaks my heart."
    by Bill Chappell Jun 18, 2018 5 minutes
    A child eats at a shelter in Brownsville, Texas, in an undated photo obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services by Reuters. The government says it separated nearly 2,000 children from adults at the U.S. southern border over the course of six recent weeks.

    Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET

    "We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says, as top Trump administration officials call out critics of its "zero tolerance" policy that calls for separating families who cross the border illegally.

    Nielsen defended the policy in a series of tweets on Sunday night; earlier in the weekend, her agency said it had separated nearly 2,000 children from adults over the course of six weeks at the U.S. southern border.

    "The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility," President Trump said on Monday, after blaming Democrats for current U.S. immigration policy. He added, "Not on my watch."

    "Immigration is the fault — and all of the problems that we're having — because we cannot get them

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