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US child migrants: First ladies speak out on Trump separation policy

Laura Bush, left, and Melania Trump have both spoken out about the treatment of child migrants. [AFP]

The former US First Lady Laura Bush has condemned a controversial policy that splits up families who illegally enter the country at the Mexican border.

Writing in the Washington Post newspaper, she describes the separation of children from their parents as cruel, immoral and heart-breaking.

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