Trump cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, officials say. 'If we don't enforce this, it is the end of our country as we know it,' Trump adviser Stephen Miller said, according to officials at meeting.
That plan never came to fruition, in large part because DHS officials had argued it would grind the immigration process to a halt. But after Sessions' announcement that all families entering illegally would be prosecuted, the onus had fallen on DHS to act.
No one in the meeting made the case that separating families would be inhumane or immoral, the officials said. Any moral argument regarding immigration"fell on deaf ears" inside the White House, said one of the officials. A sea of hands went up. Nielsen kept hers down. It was clear she had been outvoted, according to the officials.
At the time, no plan was in place to track the children who had been separated or to create a system to reunite thousands of separated families, according to the two former officials. The State Department and DHS referred NBC News to the White House. Sessions, Nielsen, Kelly and Bolton did not respond to a request for comment. McGahn and Rood could not be reached for comment.
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