States must end separations as government fights to reunite families

Raj Shah, a spokesman for the White House, acknowledged that the family reunification process would be difficult. "It's a complex situation," Shah told CNN in an interview. "Our goal is to get as many families as possible as quickly as possible."

Yet, in the lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Seattle, state attorneys general noted that last week's order of Mr. Trump did not apply to families already broken, nor prevented tactics to be used in the future.

A senior Customs and Border Protection official said on Monday that the agency would stop sending parents traveling with minor children for criminal prosecution to keep the families together. But White House officials said on Monday that the change was temporary and could only be done because the government would soon run out of space and resources to detain families together.

In the midst of chaos, the first lady, Melania Trump, who traveled last week to a facility with undocumented children separated from their parents at the border, has scheduled another visit this week, according to a spokeswoman.

The president, encouraged by the validation of the travel ban by the Supreme Court, continued Tuesday to denounce the immigration laws that allow people fleeing danger and persecution in their country of residence. obtain a judgment from the judge. "If they walk on our lands, they have judges – that's crazy," Trump said. He said that the United States should enact stricter laws that send an unmistakable message that only immigrants with special skills to stimulate the US economy should be allowed to enter the country.

"That's calling, I'm sorry, you can not come in. You have to go through a legal process," Trump said about his approach, during a lunch at the White House with Republican members of Congress. "I have to let people in, but they have to come through merit, they have to be people who can love our country and help our country."

Vice President Mike Pence, on a trip to Brazil, implored potential immigrants not to attempt to cross the US border without permission.