On Wednesday, Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna got in a fiery exchange with a witness in a House Oversight hearing over the trafficking of children occurring at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The tense exchange centered around human trafficking at the southern border and how policies surrounding “family separation” prevent this from happening. Townhall has covered how, in some cases, children are brought to the United States by coyotes, who could masquerade as their parents.
One of the witnesses, David Bier, an associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, claimed that the Trump administration caused “intentional trauma” by separating children at the border from their parents.
“We want family separation,” Luna said, adding that.
