Melania Trump and Laura Bush invite US to govern by heart amidst Trump’s administration decision to separate children from their families at the border
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The Telegraph: Melania Trump waded into a debate over children being separated from their families at the Mexico border, saying the United States should “govern with heart”.
In a rare intervention the first lady’s spokeswoman said she wanted Republicans and Democrats to work together to achieve “successful immigration reform”. Her comments were taken by some as an implicit criticism of her husband’s recently introduced “zero tolerance” policy at the border.
Mrs Trump, who immigrated to the United States legally from her native Slovenia, campaigns on behalf of children.
The comments came amid a growing uproar over the detention of minors, including hundreds being held at a former Walmart superstore in Texas.
Laura Bush was writing a guest column for The Washington Post Sunday and compared the policy to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
“I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel,” the wife of George W Bush wrote.
She said “the US government “should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso.”
