Trump's policy of breaking up migrant families is 'unconscionable', says UN human rights chief

The United Nations’ top human rights official has condemned the Trump administration’s policy of breaking up migrant families, calling the practice “unconscionable”. Speaking at the opening of a regular Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein urged the US authorities to end a “zero tolerance” policy that has seen almost 2,000 children taken from their families in the past six weeks. “The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” said Mr Hussein.

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