Jeff Sessions the negotiations with the media as he campaigns at a Jefferson County GOP candidate pancake breakfast, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Birmingham, Ala. Associated Press/ Vasha Hunt Former Attorney General Jeff Session and former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein were a "driving force" behind President Donald Trump's child separation policy at their own borders, The New York Times reported under Tuesday. Sessions and Rosenstein called for the separation of children no matter how young they only, a brand-new draft report noted. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more tales. Former Attorney General Jeff Session along with other top Justice Department officials were a "driving force" behind President Donald Trump's child separation policy at their own borders, a new draft report of findings by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said. The New York Times are of the view that according to a draft report of the results of Horowitz's investigation into the "zero tolerance" policy, both Discussions and former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein called for the separation of children no matter how young they were. The draft, which is being reviewed by officials before its freeing, is subject to change.The draft report cited more than 45 interviews with key officials, and emails and other documents. The Times reviewed the draft and spoke to informants who had read the 86 -page draft report. NBC News and MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff tweeted the NBC News had also visualize the report and said here today demonstrated The Times' findings."We need to take away children, " Sessions reportedly told five prosecutors who were "deeply concerned" about orders to prosecute all illegal immigrants even if they had to separate the kids from their parents during a call in May 2018. Sessions did not comment to The Times, or for the IG's report.According to another prosecutor's mentions, Sessions added: "If care about children, don't bring them in. Won't give amnesty to people with kids."Later that week, Rosenstein double down on Sessions' message telling the prosecutors that they should not have refused to prosecute two cases because the kids were basically babes and insisted that it didn't matter how young the children were. Rosenstein defended himself in response to the draft; The Times reported such statements: "If any United Nation attorney ever charged a defendant they did not personally belief warranted prosecution, they contravened their curse of office. I never ordered anyone to prosecute a case."After that bawl, John Bash, the leave US attorney in Western Texas District told his personnel that Rosenstein "instructed that, per the AG's policy, we are not able to be categorically diminishing migration prosecutions of adults in family units because of the age of a child, " The Times reported. The Trump administration faced criticism for its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy that led to thousands of migrant children being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico borderIn May 2018, Sessions said in a speech announcing the policy: "If you cross the border unlawfully, even a first offense, then we're going to prosecute you."He added: "If you smuggle an illegal alien across the border, then we'll prosecute you for smuggling. If you're smuggling a child, then we're going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you probably, as required by law. If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across national borders illegally. It's not our mistake that someone does that."Breastfeeding moms have claimed they were removed from their newborns at the border. One imprisoned wife alleged in June 2018 that immigration authorities took her infant daughter from her while she was breastfeeding.The Times part, quoting the text of the proposed, seemed to confirm that the government was taking breastfeeding mothers from their newborns, with a government prosecutor writing, "I did not believe this until I looked at the job log."Trump, Sessions, and other members of his administration repeatedly tried to distance themselves from the child separation policy after it came under sharp-witted public criticism. Trump at one-point falsely claimed that Democrat were behind the implementation of policies. In the draft report, Horowitz wrote that while Discussions let Trump and Homeland Security Department officials to largely be blamed for the policy, he understood that it implied separating children from their families and was on board because he thought it would prevent illegal immigration."The department's single-minded focus on increasing prosecutions came at the expense of careful and effective implementation of the policy, especially with regard to prosecution of family-unit adults and the resulting child breakups, " the draft report said, are consistent with The Times. News of Discussion push for the policy to be implemented has garnered criticism. "Send him to The Hague, " Rep. Rashida Tlaib said in a tweet. --Hans Kristensen (@ nukestrat) October 7, 2020 The DOJ did not reply to Business Insider's request for comment at the time of publication but told The Times: "The draft report relied on for this article contains several factual mistakes and inaccuracies. While DOJ is responsible for the prosecutions of defendants, it had no role in tracking or providing custodial care to the children of defendants. Finally, both the timing and misinforming content of this leak heighten troubling questions about the motivations of those responsible for it."Read the full report at The New York Times >>Read the original article on Business Insider Read more: feedproxy.google.com