Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a member of the United Methodist Church who often draws on his religious background to govern, is facing a formal complaint from more than 600 fellow Methodists.
The complaint says the Trump administration's practice of separating families at the border would be considered “child abuse” under church law.
Stories of children being taken from their parents and images of teenagers in cage-like detention facilities have turned into a crisis for the Trump administration, which announced plans on Wednesday to end the practice of family separation in illegal immigration cases. Families would be detained together indefinitely under the expected order, which could run afoul of a 20-day legal limit on how long children can be kept in detention.
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