Marco: Keep kin together
Sen. Marco Rubio signaled on Sunday that he would be open to changing a Trump administration policy that separates kids from their parents when they illegally enter the United States.
“We have a problem and it needs to be dealt with,” the Florida Republican said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“The ideal scenario is that families be kept together and returned expeditiously back to their country of origin,” he continued.
“America is the most generous country in the world and ideally you wouldn’t put people through additional trauma once they came into the United States.”
Still, he said, the US ultimately needs to secure its border and end illegal crossings.
“Well, I would be open to changing that law but the better law to change is to secure our border and to send a clear message that you cannot continue to enter the United States illegally,” he said.
In a tweet Saturday, President Trump called his own administration’s decision to separate the children of illegal immigrants from their parents “horrible” and oddly blamed Democrats for it.
In fact, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the policy earlier this month during a trip to the border, warning, “If you’re smuggling a child, then we’re going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law.”