UN calls on U.S. to stop separating migrant families

The U.N. human rights office is calling on the Trump administration to "immediately halt" its 

Rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani scolded the U.S. for its in which some families have been separated after migration across the border.

The rights office said in a statement that "children should never be detained for reasons related to their own or their parents' migration status. Detention is never in the best interests of the child and always constitutes a child rights violation."

Shamdasani told a U.N. briefing Tuesday that the practice of separating families amounted to an "arbitrary and unlawful" interference in family life, calling it a "serious violation" of the rights of children.