Kirstjen Nielsen Lied About Family Separation Policy and Now There's Proof

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen told the Senate under oath in May that the Trump administration did not have a policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border.

However, a memo that's now gone public thanks to the Freedom of Information Act details a few "zero tolerance" immigration strategies, one of which explicitly endorsed pulling families apart as a matter of strategy. That option was signed off on, seemingly by Nielsen herself.

It's bad enough that Nielsen was party to such a cruel policy, but to then blatantly lie about it under oath when she knew it very much was a policy the White House was pursued deserves ramifications.

We call on the Senate Judiciary Committee to look into Nielsen's apparent perjury, and encourage her to be sanctioned accordingly.