Alyssa Milano offers to foster immigrant children

Actor Alyssa Milano has offered to foster immigrant children who have been separated from their parents under US President Donald Trump's policy.

The actor, who is a Brooklyn native, penned a letter to the CEO of Cayuga Centers, Edward Myers Hayes where she asked to help his organisation by offering her New York home for detained immigrant children to reside in.

"The last few weeks have been heartbreaking for Americans. We have watched the inhumane destruction at our Southern border as innocent children, already traumatised, were essentially kidnapped from their families in furtherance of a vulgar, xenophobic Trump policy," Milano wrote in the letter obtained by the Hollywood Reporter.

Pleading that "jailing children is simply wrong," Milano said that the recent immigration policy marks a "dark chapter in our nation's history" for it is simply an exemplification of actions "fueled by a twisted desire to criminalise the most vulnerable."
"I am sure this is something many other Americans would consider a moral and patriotic duty."