Sessions Cites Bible to Defend Separating Immigrant Families
Jeff Sessions, U.S. attorney general (center) attends an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington on May 18, 2018.
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Washington (AP) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible on Thursday in his defense of his border policy that is resulting in hundreds of immigrant children being separated from their parents after they enter the U.S. illegally.
Sessions, speaking in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on immigration, pushed back against criticism he had received over the policy. On Wednesday, a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church said that separating mothers from their babies was "immoral."