A new policy, unveiled by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April, calls for “zero-tolerance” for immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. along the Mexican border. Sessions warned that violators would be met with “the full prosecutorial powers of the Department of Justice.”

Through the end of May, almost 2,000 children were separated from adults who said they were their parents or guardians, the Department of Homeland Security said last week.

The policy has garnered a lot of national media attention this week.

More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laypeople have signed a formal denominational complaint against Sessions, a fellow United Methodist, accusing him of  child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of doctrine of the United Methodist Church.”

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