So we, as members of the United Nations, signed on into an international human rights agreement, saying very clearly that family separation is a violation of international human rights, and then we pursued a policy that violates human…

And so I looked at this memo, and it seems like this is the source of it, and it seems as though, Mr. Homan, that you are the author.

We had heard reports that there were hundreds of people in the El Paso border station.

We've seen severe overcrowding in Border Patrol processing centers that is so inhumane that the DHS Office of the Inspector General described it as dangerous because it represents an immediate risk to agents and migrants alike.

Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.

These policies have created the humanitarian crisis and a moral one.

Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents?

Seeking asylum is legal.

Anyone in the custody of our government, especially a child, must be treated humanely and with respect.

Children should not be separated from their mothers or fathers unless there is a true need for it.

This is a manufactured crisis because cruelty--because the cruelty is manufactured.