Piers Morgan in fierce clash with Donald Trump supporter Ann Coulter over hardline US immigration policy

Alexandra Richards20 June 2018

US right-wing commentator Ann Coulter became embroiled in a fierce clash with Piers Morgan over Donald Trump’s new hard-line immigration policy.

Speaking during an explosive interview on Good Morning Britain, Ms Coulter defended the new zero-tolerance policy and the separation of children from parents at the southern border.

“If somebody walks into my house I’m going to pull a gun on them, and don’t whine to me that ‘that’s so cruel to pull a gun on them.’ You don’t want me to hold a gun on you, don’t break into my house, don’t come in,” she said.

The US commentator was slammed by Morgan for defending Trump’s immigrant policy which has seen 2,300 children separated from their suspected illegal immigrant parents.

Ann Coulter accused the seperated children of being "actors" 
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Ms Coulter has previously claimed that traumatised children in detention camps are actors part of a “political stunt” to tarnish the “United States” and that they are "child actors".

During the heated ITV interview, Mr Morgan said: “They are not actors, they are not at a summer camp. They are being kept in wire cages under tinfoil. They have no toys and in some cases no nappies. They are not with their parents…

“Why can’t you find it in your heart, rather than label them a bunch of actors, to accept this part of this immigration policy is cruel, inhumane and barbaric?”

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border
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Ms Coulter responded by saying: “There’s a very easy way not to be put in these camps and that’s not to come into the country; to stay in Mexico.”

Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy has sparked fury across the globe in recent days after distressing images of children being separated from their parents after crossing the US border emerged.

The policy began in April and means that illegal immigrants are being prosecuted as criminals even if they plan to seek asylum in the US.

Donald Trump introduced his "zero-tolerance" immigration policy in April  
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The new policy has led to children being separated from their parents as they attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the US.

The parents are being sent to federal prison in the US while children are being housed in detention centres.

Trump defended his “zero-tolerance” policy on Monday claiming the US will not be a “migrant camp.”

Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their families over a six-week period in April and May after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the new "zero-tolerance" policy that refers to all cases of illegal entry for criminal prosecution.