To this end, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated, “if you do not want your child separated from you, then do not bring him across the border illegally.” More recently, President Trump said, “tell migrants not to come to our country unless they are willing to do so legally.” Yet both international refugee law (1951 Refugee Convention, Article 31.1) and U.S. law (8 U.S.C. § 1158.a.1) consider asylum a right, not illegal conduct.