Marc Lotter, the former Trump 2020 director of strategic communications, was confronted by CNN's Pamela Brown for not answering her questions on immigrant family separation.
Specifically, Brown asked Lotter to comment on the incoming second Trump administration's plans for American citizens who are currently living with relatives who are undocumented immigrants.
"There are a number of different situations that are involved here," Lotter replied. "If you have an illegal immigrant who is married to a U.S. citizen, they could actually go home right now and petition because they have legal standing to come back into the country with legal status... there are roadways and pathways for them, the question is do you want to exercise it?"
"Right but that's not answering the question about separated families," Brown shot back.
She then referred to instances under the Trump administration in which immigration agents took an undocumented immigrant into custody while leaving their children alone in their homes and not knowing where their parents were.
"Well the question we have is what are we going to do with the laws that we have on the books," he said. "We already have these laws. And let's take it out of the immigration sector. Let's say that someone got picked up for bank robbery. We don't stop because well, you know, you have children, we're not going to put you in jail."