John Legend calls out Paul Ryan for Father's Day tweet as immigrant families are being separated.
Singer John Legend has slammed House Speaker Paul Ryan with an F-bomb on Twitter over a Trump administration immigration policy that has separated at least 2,000 children from their parents.
"Seriously, f--- you," Legend wrote, retweeting Ryan's post Saturday in which he wished "all the dads out there" a happy Father's Day. "Reunite the families at the border and we can talk about father's day."
The tweet came a day after the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that at least 2,000 children had been separated from parents at the border as part of a new zero-tolerance policy on illegal border crossings. The Trump administration recently decided that every adult caught crossing the border illegally will be charged with federal crimes instead of referring those with children to immigration courts.
The harsher punishments for immigrant parents mean their children are separated from them and there's no clear procedure for reunification aside from hotlines the parents can call to try to track down their children.
Ryan, the top Republican in the House, said last week that he believes Congress should resolve the issue as part of immigration legislation.
We don't want kids to be separated from their parents," he said.
Ryan's press secretary, AshLee Strong, declined to comment to CNN Sunday on Legend's tweet.
The separations of immigrant families have touched a nerve with Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen
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