'We don't share certain values', France says of U.S. migrant policy

Source: Reuters




JUNE 19, 2018 / 3:04 AM / UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO
Reuters Staff

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe and the United States do not share the same values, France’s government spokesman said on Tuesday as outrage grows over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant parents and children arriving over the border from Mexico.

The European Union faces its own crisis over how to handle a years-long influx of migrants fleeing conflict in Africa and the Middle East and spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said he did not want to see what is happening in the United States occur in Europe.

“We do not share the same model of civilization, clearly we don’t share certain values,” Griveaux told France 2 television.

The furor over the detained children stems from U.S. President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, in which migrants apprehended entering the United States illegally are criminally charged.



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