Laura Ingraham compared migrant child detention centers to 'summer camps' as the Trump administration faces escalating blowback over family separation policy
Get the Full StoryFox NewsFox News opinion host Laura Ingraham sought to minimize the controversy surrounding the Trump administration's enforcement of a "zero-tolerance" policy on migrants entering the US illegally.
On her program Monday night, Ingraham compared the detention centers where children who have been separated from their parents are being held to "summer camps."
Critics reacted strongly to Ingraham's comments.
Fox News opinion host Laura Ingraham sought to minimize the controversy surrounding the Trump administration's enforcement of a "zero-tolerance" policy on Monday night. That policy leads to adults being criminally prosecuted when they cross the US-Mexico border. Any children traveling with them are taken away to separate facilities.
Those family separations have led to thousands of children being housed in detention centers — some of which are warehouse-style facilities when the children are kept behind fenced-off barriers that resemble cages. Ingraham compared them to "summer camps" on her program Monday night.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: This top economist has a radical plan to change the way Americans voteSee Also:These photos reveal why the 26-year-old organizer of the disastrous Fyre Festival could spend more than 10 years in prisonChief border patrol agent says many migrant children are 'hardened adults' who 'have been working for years'Michael Avenatti is now trying to take on Trump on his family-separation policy as outrage reaches a fever pitchSEE ALSO: 'How is this not child abuse?': Homeland Security secretary gets mercilessly grilled over family separation policy in heated press briefing
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