Updated On: 28 May, 2018 06:06 PM IST | Washington DC | AFP
Critics were quick to point to a "zero tolerance" policy announced earlier this month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that authorizes border security agents to take away the children of people who enter the United States unlawfully


Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, along with her children, Arabella (L) and Theodore, walk to board Air Force One prior to departure Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey. AFP
Ivanka Trump is facing an online backlash for tweeting a "tone deaf" photo of herself cuddling her son as outrage grows over a federal government policy to separate the children of undocumented migrants from their parents.