Ivanka urged Trump to address family separation: reports

US President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump urged her father to end family separations on the US-Mexico border, US media reported.

Ivanka has made no public comment on the issue, but Trump told lawmakers during a meeting last evening that she had broached the issue with him, CNN and the Washington Post reported.

Congressman Chris Collins said Trump mentioned his daughter had "seen the images" and said they should deal with the crisis "for a lot of reasons," according to CNN.

"He mentioned that his daughter Ivanka had encouraged him to end this and he said he does recognise that it needs to end and the images are painful and he's looking for a legislative solution," CNN reported Florida congressman Carlos Curbelo as saying.

"He discussed the optics and the policy itself, and I think he's not comfortable with either." Meanwhile, Maggie Haberman of The New York Times reported on Twitter that Trump quoted Ivanka as saying: "Daddy, what are we doing about this?"