TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - There's a battle at the border, where federal agents have separated nearly 2,000 immigrant children from their parents for entering the country illegally.
The Trump administration's policy is turning into a human rights issue, drawing criticism on both sides of the aisle.
The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol released photos from inside a detention facility in Texas.
The FSU Center for the Advancement of Human Rights says the policy is more than just a matter of national security. With vulnerable groups like children involved, it's a human rights issue, too.
"This is a significant departure from not only current but historical approaches toward these issues, so it's not to minimize the challenge," said Mark Schlakman, who's an attorney and the senior program director at the FSU Center for the Advancement of Human Rights. "The challenge is real. This is just unprecedented."
The center said Florida had its own immigration issues in the 90's when an influx of Cubans and Haitians were coming to Florida, but that Governor Lawton Chiles didn't separate families.
