Mexico Criticizes U.S. Over Policy Removing Immigrant Children From Parents

Mexico says Trump administration policies violate children’s human rights and calls for steps to alleviate conditions of detained minors

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s government criticized U.S. immigration policies that it said violate the human rights of children by separating them from their undocumented migrant parents.

“We strongly urge the U.S. government to reconsider this policy,” Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said Tuesday, urging federal authorities to implement measures to alleviate the traumatic conditions of some 2,000 children held in U.S. facilities without their parents. He called the Trump administration policies “cruel and inhumane.”

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