US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on Wednesday to prevent children of undocumented immigrants arriving at the southern border from being separated from their parents.
"We will have strong and strong borders, but we will keep families together," he told reporters at the White House.
Trump added that he did not like "the show or the feeling" of families who suffer when separated.
The executive order stipulates that the government will continue to apply "strictly" its immigration laws, but "will maintain family unity, arresting foreign families when there are appropriate and lawful resources."
The new migration policy of the Trump administration has generated criticism in the international community.
Previously, the US did not judge parents and adult members of a family who entered the country without children with documents, to avoid separating families.
Instead, they were given a date to appear before an audience and be released, a procedure their critics defined as "pick up and drop."
The separation of the undocumented from their children began after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in April a "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigration.
Under the new policy, adults crossing the undocumented border are sent to prisons while their children are placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Since mid-April, about 2,000 children have been separated from their families on the US-Mexico border and sent to detention centers with cage-like spaces
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