Melania Trump Meets Immigration Officials in Arizona on behalf of Children and Families

First Lady Melania Trump makes her second trip in a week on the US-Mexican border Thursday

The First Lady arrived today in Tucson, Arizona, where she held a round table with border police officials, Immigration and Customs, the US Marshals Service and a local. rancher. Ms. Trump will visit a "short-term detention facility" and make a private visit to an intelligence center, her spokesperson Stephanie Grisham told the press,

"I'm here to support you" said Ms. Trump. civil servants, offering help on behalf of children and families.

Officials told him that they apprehended an average of 150 illegal immigrants per day in the Tucson area of ​​the border. "A serious application of the law on immigration is necessary," said Rodolfo Karisch, the chief patrol officer, to the first lady. "And there must be consequences for violations of the law because if you do not have any consequences then … you promote further illegal activity."

He said American officials could be described as "cruel" or "heartless" and hoped to show him "the amount of care that families, the children of the people we meet here".

The first lady asks how many unaccompanied children have crossed the border and they were told that 1100 minors without children entered Arizona illegally since October 1.

Grisham said the first lady was there to watch and plead "for quality care for the children." She wants to learn people on the front lines at the border, "said Grisham.

Trump last week made a trip to McAllen, Texas, where she visited a shelter for immigrant children "The policy of family separation has shaken the country.

He later issued an executive order reversing this policy, but many families have not been reunited.

The First Lady's office had announced that she would make another visit this week