DHS/IMMIGRATION: “So they’re smuggling in women and they’re smuggling in children. And they’re using the children, in particular, as pawns, who are getting other people into our country. Because when you’re with a child, even if the child is not yours — which in itself is ridiculous — then it’s much easier to come across and come into our country because the laws are very bad. Our immigration laws are very bad.
And right now, smugglers coach migrants to travel with minors and to send minors alone to gain easy entry into the United States. Catch-and-release must stop. DHS must have the authority to humanely return minors to be with their families in their home countries.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Signing of H.R. 3401,” whitehouse.gov, July 1, 2019