A human rights professor has called on the public to name and shame US Border Patrol guards to force them to quit their jobs.

Kate Cronin-Furman, an assistant professor of human rights at University College London, wrote in the New York Times that the guards needed to be pressured by their communities for the mistreatment of migrants.

She believes a 'mass atrocity' is taking place and says that people should expose guards who are 'midlevel functionaries who make the system run'.

Cronin-Furman added that her plan would ensure that guards would be 'internationally shamed' as rights abusers, making them unable to say they were 'just following orders.'

Kate Cronin-Furman is an assistant professor of human rights at University College London and wrote an editorial calling on the names of US Border Guards to be released

Cronin-Furman wrote: 'The identities of the individual Customs and Border Protection agents who are physically separating children from their families and staffing the detention centers are not undiscoverable.

'Immigration lawyers have agent names; journalists reporting at the border have names, photos and even videos. These agents' actions should be publicized, particularly in their home communities.'

The professor believes that the social cost to the guards would force them to quit and would also mean they cannot travel freely abroad.

She added: 'The knowledge, for instance, that when you go to church on Sunday, your entire congregation will have seen you on TV ripping a child out of her father's arms is a serious social cost to bear.

'The desire to avoid this kind of social shame may be enough to persuade some agents to quit and may hinder the recruitment of replacements.'

Migrant children who have been separated from their families can be seen in tents at a detention center in Homestead, Florida

Currently a lecturer in London, Cronin-Furman was formerly a human rights lawyer and political scientist.

She was also previously a postdoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The National Interest, and The New York Times.

She wrote the piece in response to media coverage about US immigration detention centers.

House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) should be removed from Congress because she's 'spreading anti-Semitism, hatred, and stupidity,' according to Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg (right)

On June 18, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared the detention centers to concentration camps.

She said: 'The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are - they are concentration camps.'

Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg, 93, of Morris Plains, New Jersey, blasted the Democratic congresswoman.

'The people on the border aren't forced to be there - they go there on their own will,' he told the New York Post.

'If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care.'

Donald Trump said yesterday that a 'lot of' people will be deported from the US after Independence day.

Trump made the comments as he signed an aid package on Monday to help the federal government cope with the surge of Central American immigrants at the US-Mexico border

Speaking at the Oval Office as he signed a $4.6 billion aid package on immigration, he said that ICE will be 'apprehending them' and sending them back to their home countries.

Trump also dismissed the conditions that most people seeking asylum in the U.S. face in their home countries.

He said they are lodging 'frivolous asylum claims.'

The bill bolsters care for tens of thousands of arrivals taken into custody monthly and sets guidelines for how the Trump administration must handle them.

Trump expressed satisfaction with the bill, but made clear he was dissatisfied with the state of illegal immigration in the United States.