{"id":143787,"date":"2018-06-20T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-child-detention-pictures-disturbing-theresa-may\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:29:51","slug":"us-child-detention-pictures-disturbing-theresa-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-child-detention-pictures-disturbing-theresa-may\/","title":{"rendered":"US child detention pictures disturbing &#8212; Theresa May"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bmjc6.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionTheresa May: US child detention &#039;disturbing&#039; and &#039;wrong&#039;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Theresa May has condemned the forced separation of migrant children from their parents in the US, but dismissed calls to call off President Donald Trump&#039;s visit to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The PM said the images of children being kept in what look like cages was &quot;deeply disturbing&quot; and &quot;wrong&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But she said Mr Trump&#039;s visit next month should go ahead to ensure &quot;shared interests&quot; could be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Where she disagreed on something, she would tell Mr Trump, Mrs May insisted.<\/p>\n<p>She was challenged on the issue at Prime Minister&#039;s Questions by the SNP&#039;s Ian Blackford and a host of Labour MPs, including former leader Ed Miliband. <\/p>\n<p>Mrs May said she was &quot;clearly, wholly and unequivocally&quot; clear that she disagreed with the policy. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;On what we have seen in the United States, pictures of children being held in what appear to be cages are deeply disturbing,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bh6ch.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionThe sound of migrant children separated from parents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&quot;This is not something that we agree with, this is not the United Kingdom&#039;s approach.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But she said the UK had a &quot;long and enduring special relationship&quot; with the US and Mr Trump&#039;s visit next month was an opportunity to raise a range of issues. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans scramble amid border crisis<\/li>\n<li>Why the US is separating migrant children from their parents<\/li>\n<li>What is Donald Trump&#039;s family-separation endgame?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Republican-controlled Congress is under pressure to change the border policy, following widespread condemnation. But the president says it is necessary to stop illegal border crossings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionTheresa May: US child detention &#039;disturbing&#039; and &#039;wrong&#039; Theresa May has condemned the forced separation of migrant children from their parents in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}