US migrant children cry for separated parents

An audio recording in which migrant children in the US can be heard crying for their parents has been released as US President Donald Trump remains defiant over his immigration policy.

Some 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents in the past few months after their families tried to cross the US border illegally.

Mr Trump said he would not allow the US to become a "migrant camp".

The UN high commissioner for refugees says the policy is "unacceptable".

The recording was released by investigative US media outlet ProPublica on Monday, and was said to have been made from inside a US customs and border protection facility.

One border patrol agent can be heard saying: "We have an orchestra here. What's missing is a conductor."

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has told the BBC the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy towards illegal immigration is unacceptable.

"It is absolutely wrong to separate children from their families in any circumstances and particularly when people are in distress as, for example, people that are fleeing from violence and persecution, as is the case for people in Central America," he said.

"So, we are advising the government of the United States that this is not the right way to handle that particular phenomenon of people seeking asylum across the border."

SOURCE: BBC NEWS
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