New kinda American Family Values. Let's put border crossers in jail awaiting trial and their children in HHR orphanages!....

By Ted Hessen @ Politico.com, May 7

The Trump administration will more frequently separate families at the southwest border under a new policy to be announced Monday, a DHS official told POLITICO.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signed a memo Friday that directs the department to refer all suspected border-crossers to the Justice Department for prosecution under a federal statute that prohibits illegal entry, according to the official [....]

Sessions announced the policy Monday at a law enforcement conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., according to the Justice Department. He said it will result in the referral of “100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings“ to the DOJ for prosecution.

“If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law,” the attorney general said in prepared remarks. “If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.“ [....]