First Lady Melania Trump, addressing her husband’s hard-line immigration crackdown that splits children from their parents, said through a rep Sunday that she “hates” to see families separated.

“Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,” Stephanie Grisham, the First Lady’s spokeswoman, told CNN. “She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs from the heart.”

The statement from Melania — who was born in Slovenia — comes amid growing protests over Trump’s anti-illegal-immigration tactic.