The Trump administration’s efforts to dissuade more families from illegally entering the United States by systematically separating parents from their children when they do so has run afoul of NBC’s Spanish-language sister network, Telemundo.

Citing a Washington Post report on the administration’s new plan to stem the surge in illegal border crossings by family units, Telemundo portrayed President Trump as ‘the Grinch’ who in effect stole Mother’s Day from unauthorized immigrant Moms.

JOSÉ DIAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: No reason to celebrate. The plan to separate children from their parents on the border is advancing. On Mother's Day, in Mexico and Central America, they say that the detention of families will continue, and the deportations will speed up.

The Telemundo report went on to chronicle the celebration of a “Mothers in Resistance” event held by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).

There, correspondent Francisco Cuevas talked to Moms who unlawfully entered the country and now anguish that “every day one has the fear of not being able to return to your home, of not being able to see your children again” and that the prospect of being detained and separated from one’s children when one enters the United States illegally “is not what one expects” and makes one want to ‘sign and return’ (in other words, voluntarily ‘self-deport’).

The five-alarm Telemundo story actually ends up providing additional validation for the Trump administration plan, which is precisely to end the previous “catch and release” policy which incentivized family units to illegally enter the United States, as entering with minor children typically allowed them to be quickly released on their own into the country, to together await a deportation hearing.

The report also fails to mention that anyone who incurs in a serious violation of the law is subject to being detained and separated from his or her family. Should breaking the nation’s immigration laws be the exception?

There is, most certainly, an easier way for unauthorized immigrant families to stay together: don't enter the United States illegally in the first place. Respect and act according to the laws of the land, as millions do, every year.

Below is the complete transcript of the above-referenced report, as aired on the May 10, 2018 edition of Noticiero Telemundo.