NEW: Acting Homeland Security Sec. McAleenan tells LesterHoltNBC that separating migrant families at the US southern border is 'not on the table,' and the policy was 'not worth it' from an enforcement perspective. More tonight on NBCNightlyNews.
In an interview with NBC News' Lester Holt, Kevin McAleenan said the administration wants to "detain families together" during immigration proceedings.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Acting Homeland Security chief Kevin McAleenan said separating migrant families at the U.S. southern border is"not on the table," and the policy was"not worth it" from an enforcement perspective.
In his first network interview as acting DHS secretary to broadcast, McAleenan told NBC News' Lester Holt on Tuesday,"We're not pursuing that approach." McAleenan's predecessor, Kirstjen Nielsen, was forced out of the job earlier this month, in part because she'd refused to reinstate the policy of separating children from their families at the border, U.S. officials haveFor more on this story, read NBCNews.com and watch"Nightly News with Lester Holt" at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT.
Of the children separated from their families at the border, “they were always intended to be reunited,” he said. "Really a better system, as I've said many times, would allow us to detain families together during fair and expeditious immigration proceedings and getting actual immigration results from courts, so that’s what’s missing from the current situation," he said in an interview from DHS's offices in the World Trade Center.
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