Vice President Mike Pence says the Trump administration will not return to separating families at the southern border
"The President made it very clear this week, we're not rethinking bringing back family separation," Pence told CNN's Dana Bash.On Monday, senior administration officials told CNN's Jake Tapper that in the last four months or so, Trump had been pushing then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to enforce a stricter and more widespread"zero-tolerance" immigration policy.
There were approximately 92,000 arrests of undocumented migrants for illegal entry along the southern border in March, up from 37,390 the previous March. Overall in March, more than 103,000 individuals were apprehended along the border or encountered at a port of entry and deemed"inadmissible."Pence stressed that the onus was on Congress to act and provide a legislative solution to what he said was an inadequate immigration system. "We've got to close the loopholes in our law.
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