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    Senators call border family separation policy 'immoral' as officials defend their actions

    by Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times Aug 01, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Trump administration officials on Tuesday sought to defend the immigration enforcement policy that allowed Border Patrol agents to separate more than 2,500 migrant families, but ran into sharp criticism from senators as one official compared detention centers for children to "summer camp."

    "These individuals have access to 24/7 food and water," said Matthew Albence, a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official. "They have educational opportunities. They have recreational opportunities, both structured as well as unstructured. There's basketball courts, there's exercise classes, there's soccer fields we put in there."

    "Would you send your children" to one of the centers, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii,

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