Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended President Donald Trump‘s border policies on Monday night, offering an…interesting rebuttal to critics who compared the administration’s immigration practices to Nazi Germany.

In a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham, Sessions blamed the border situation on legal immigration loopholes while rejecting the notion that Trump could change policy implementation if he wanted to.

Sessions also insisted that “we are taking care of these children,” saying “they are not being abused” despite the fact that they’ve been taken away from their families and placed in cages.

The interview continued with Sessions falsely claiming the migrant children are living under “good conditions,” all while insisting that these separations don’t happen for families who seek asylum in America through the proper immigration channels.

Eventually, Ingraham asked Sessions to respond to political opponents “demagoguing the issue” by comparing the Trump Administration’s policies to those of Adolf Hitler.

“It’s a real exaggeration,” Sessions said. “In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country but this is a serious matter.”

As the interview went on, Sessions said that the current policy should be considered as a “deterrent” and a message to those thinking about illegally crossing the border. Interestingly enough, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen pushed back on that characterization earlier today as she defended the policy during the White House press briefing.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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