Stopping Family Separation Requires Closing Loopholes and Strengthening Immigration and Asylum Systems
The issue of alien children being divided from their parents at the U.S. southern border is one of strong emotion and concern for innocent children. Beyond the emotion, a complex set of factors and immigration restrictions and loopholes are at work that deserve careful analysis in order to solve this genuinely distressing situation. Congress should enact reforms that will allow family units to remain together, while closing immigration and asylum loopholes and maintaining robust enforcement of the country’s immigration law.