“We want a great country. We want a country with heart. But when people come up, they have to know they can’t get in,” he said. “Otherwise it’s never going to stop.”
He also declared that the US needed to be secured, whether or not that seems politically palatable.
“You have to stand for something and you have to stand for safety and security of our country. We can’t let people pour in,” he said. “Maybe it’s politically correct or maybe it’s not. We’ve got to stop separation of the families, but politically correct or not, we have a country that needs security, that needs safety, that has to be protected.”
According to reports Trump has repeatedly defended his immigration crackdown. But images of young children housed in metal cages have set off a nationwide outcry that has reached the White House.Attorney General Jeff Sessions has also defended the administration’s controversial policy along with Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, who gave a forceful explanation of the actions, arguing that it had no choice, reports The New York Times.
“Parents who entered illegally are by definition criminals,” Nielsen said on Tuesday. “By entering our country illegally, often in dangerous circumstances, illegal immigrants have put their children at risk.” House Republicans are planning to vote on two immigration measures this week.
