Migrant children: Latin America unites in outrage

Migrant children: Latin America unites in outrage
By Will Grant
BBC News, Mexico
7 hours ago

Even for an administration as craven to Washington as Guatemala's, it was an extraordinary admission.

"The Guatemalan government is respectful of US immigration policy," said the president's spokesman, Heinz Hiemann, when asked about the Trump administration's controversial practice of separating immigrant children - many of them Guatemalan - from their parents.

It would prove to be his final act in the job.

He was unceremoniously sacked the following morning with a statement clarifying that his comments "did not represent the position of President Jimmy Morales".

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