OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the U.S. policy of separating child migrants from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and detaining them, is "unacceptable."
Trudeau is telling reporters that what is going on in the United States is "wrong."
He adds that he cannot imagine what the families involved are enduring and says this is not the way things are done in Canada.
Trudeau has been called upon to condemn the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance policy," under which asylum seekers who cross illegally into the U.S. are charged with federal crimes and separated from their children, who are detained in guarded, fenced enclosures.
The Canadian Council for Refugees has urged the federal government to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, saying the U.S. cannot be considered a safe country for refugees in light of the "disturbing" events at the U.S. border.
The government says it is monitoring the changes in U.S. immigration policy and what effects they will have on asylum seekers in the United States.
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